Word: clocked
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That finally propelled President Clinton to action. Since the beginning of April the U.S. has contributed just over $150 million in aid to Rwanda but stoutly resisted leading a full-scale relief effort. On Friday Clinton ordered a round-the-clock airlift of food, water and medicine and dispatched the first of what could soon be up to 4,000 soldiers to distribute it throughout the border regions. The President was moved, he said, by the reports that Rwandans in the camps were dying at the rate of one a minute. "In the days to come," said the President...
...lucks into nearly every headline event of the past 40 years, is the summer sensation: a popular hit and an instant cultural touchstone. As the film's director, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), says, Gump has "no typical storytelling devices: no villain, no ticking clock, no burning fuse." Yet it has exploded at the North American box office. In its second week of release, when ticket sales for even the most robust hits drop perhaps 20%, Gump held even. This past weekend it reached the $100 million mark; an industry savant predicts, quite conservatively, that...
NATIONAL PARKS: Turning Back the Clock...
...doing making three trips to and from his apartment at three in the morning with his salesman's case. It was raining. Where was he going? And what about the truck he sent away? And was it really Mrs. Thorwald who allegedly left with Lars Thorwald at six o'clock that same morning, just after Jeff had fallen asleep? The superintendent of the building must have been bribed. Mrs. Thorwald must have been murdered. Stella wants to know who killed the neighbor's dog which was always digging in Mr. Thorwald's flowerbed. She agrees with Lisa's female logic...
President Clinton ordered a massive "round-the-clock" military airlift to begin in Rwanda, where the refugee disaster is claiming a life a minute. After private aid experts had charged the White House with failing to understand the magnitude of the crisis, Clinton said the U.S. would build an "airlift hub" in neighboring Uganda for the 24-hour-a-day shipment of supplies to the region. He also called on the United Nations to send "a full contingent" of peacekeepers to provide security for civilians who want to return to their homeland. "The flow of refugees across Rwanda's borders...