Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hard-to-confirm tales of destruction and rape abound. Saddam, who knows that such reports undermine his claim to have restored law-and-order in Kuwait, has introduced summary trial and execution for looters. Hamza Hendawi, a Reuters correspondent who escaped from Kuwait last week, reports that as a warning to thieves, Iraqi forces strung up the body of an executed lieutenant colonel on a crane and left it dangling outside Kuwait's municipal headquarters. A placard around the corpse's neck read HE STOLE THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. Beneath the body were piled stolen clothes and electrical goods...
Yourow said he prefers not to hazard a guess onwhether the audience will confirm Souter, saying"anything can happen...
Officials will not confirm exactly whatmilitary options Bush is considering, but lastnight Pentagon sources said that the aircraftcarrier Independence and an accompanyingtask force were within striking distance of Iraqisoil...
...sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate Members of Parliament and poison the water supply to the black township of Soweto. Though the South African government did confirm that it had arrested eleven whites, it would say only that they were released after questioning...
...rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds greater than Mach 6 (4,100 m.p.h.) -- fast enough to cross the Pacific in less than two hours. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed will confirm its existence...