Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upholding an American tradition that stretches from the early pioneers to Mark Twain to the Merry Pranksters, a caravan of TIME journalists set off across the country last week. With due ceremony, they dipped their hands in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, then boarded a Greyhound bus in Ocean City, Md. They followed no campaign trail, no flood line, no militia uprising, but rather the road itself--U.S. Highway 50. "As reporters, we regularly fly to crisis spots and world capitals," says managing editor Walter Isaacson, who caught up with the bus in Cincinnati on Thursday...
...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show the agency has received 171 complaints, all of which involve the belts for the right-side seat in the minivans' second row, according to the Associated Press. In one complaint, South Carolina resident Lynn Beaty hit the brakes on her 1992 Dodge Caravan to avoid hitting two deer, and the child seat holding her toddler flew forward, landing upside down with her daughter still in it. Identical parts were used in the 1991-93 Dodge Caravan and Grand Caravan, Plymouth Voyager and Grand Voyager and Chrysler Town and Country minivans. This is the latest...
...that was just Val the perfectionist, obsessed with highlighting the film's romantic glow. "He worked so minutely on this relationship that some crew members said they were having an affair," says Noyce. "I don't believe that was true, but they spent a lot of time in the caravan together, and it was all about trying to be free with each other...
Some ages are defined by their epidemics. In 1347 rats and fleas stirred up by Tatar traders cutting caravan routes through Central Asia brought bubonic plague to Sicily. In the space of four years, the Black Death killed up to 30 million people. In 1520, Cortes' army carried smallpox to Mexico, wiping out half the native population. In 1918 a particularly virulent strain of flu swept through troops in the trenches of France. By the time it had worked its way through the civilian population, 21 million men, women and children around the world had perished--more than were killed...
AMMAN, JORDAN: Iraqui Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead...