Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open up a glossy magazine called Campaigns and Elections, and I'm shot in the head. I stare at a middle-aged white guy with an angry grin aiming a '38 at my face. "They're gunning for you," reads the tag line on the page--an ad for the Virginia-based campaign consulting firm called Jamestown Associates. In light of the recent imbroglio over gun control in the house, Jamestown promises to "turn those bullets into blanks" for GOP. candidates who will campaign against those nefarious Democrats...
...come in the night, never again will houses and villages be burned, and never again will there be massacres and mass graves." But that seemed a little premature. Only a day earlier, the village of Gracko had buried 14 Serbs massacred in a wheat field, and a low-level campaign of terror against the region?s remaining Serbs and Gypsies appears to continue unabated...
...pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Retiring him 10 months rather than 12 months from now is based entirely on the fact that they badly want to ensure his replacement...
...shaving two months off Clark?s assignment next year amounts to a form of punishment comes across as strange ? but not as strange as the very idea of punishing Clark. On both of his major differences with the Pentagon and the White House over the conduct of the Kosovo campaign ? his desire to escalate the air war from early on and to prepare for a ground invasion ? he may have been vindicated by the outcome. NATO was indeed forced to step up the air war, and many observers believe that it was only the prospect of a ground war that...
...KIND This week People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launches a campaign to increase public awareness of animal cruelty and its link to other violent behavior in youngsters. The group is supplying teaching kits and videos to more than 100,000 educators as well as 15,000 pediatric and obstetric offices to help adults teach kids the importance of being kind to their pets and other animals. The material shows parents, teachers and doctors how to spot and deal quickly with the troubling early signs of cruelty to animals...