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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stormed into the church. Tutsi, women and children among them, fled through a rear door and into the surrounding papyrus brush. They were hunted down. Hutu severed a woman's hands and feet. They cut out a man' s heart, leaving a huge gash in his chest. Bordeau was handed a baby, still breathing but drenched in his mother's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CONTAGION OF GENOCIDE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...take place when his target drives back to the monastery where he has been staying. Feigning engine trouble along the route, he waits for the old man to stop, then approaches as if to ask for a lift, pulls out a pistol and is fatally shot twice in the chest by the man he planned to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TO AVENGE OR TO FORGET THE PAST? | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...Potomac's Washington side, Warner remains the choice of Republican barons. Bob Dole and his likely successor as majority leader, Trent Lott, have helped him raise an intimidating war chest. On the Virginia side the party is dominated by Buchanan-style conservatives who want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: ESTRANGED BEDFELLOWS | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...cited for its third license violation in December 1995 and faced a six-day suspension. Its appeal hearing for that violation was scheduled for May 29, but the proceedings were postponed until June when McCarthy was hospitalized with chest pains...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Crimson Grille Survives Raid | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Before the school year started, I procured a shirt in a shocking new color: fire engine red. White letters on my chest proclaimed my membership in the Crimson Key Society, while the calendar on the back listed a week's worth of social events...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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