Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...research will culminate in a planned book, entitled Yazzo Chronicles, on the entire history of the region of the Mississippi Delta made famous by William Faulkner...
...Sessions and his top deputies put together for Reno on Monday morning. She wanted to see everything, asked hundreds of questions: Why go now? What is he likely to do? Is this the best way to go? On Wednesday night she called in members of the Army's elite Delta Force to ask their opinions. Her questions always came back to the children. FBI officials explained that the longer the siege lasted, the more the children would suffer. "Children are like hostages," Koresh had told one negotiator, "because they're too young to make decisions...
Inevitably, Tobias says, he was kicked out of Hill for ignorance and bad ) behavior. His memoir ends there, but his life didn't. He went on to serve in Vietnam as an adviser to a Vietnamese regiment in the Delta during the Tet offensive. Then he got a degree at Oxford. He worked for a few months as a reporter at the Washington Post, then quit to invent himself again, this time truthfully, as a fiction writer...
...gray row of company housing on a dusty back street of the town of Kafr el Dawar in the Nile delta, a man answers the door, yet again. He wears a striped galabia and a look of exhaustion. "I am sorry," he says, "but I cannot talk. I am the father of Mahmud, but I don't know anything about him." Outside the house, a teenage boy says he is Mahmud's brother. Mahmud is not here. He left 14 years ago and never came back...
...Federal Aviation Administration, pressed by pilots to crack down on the gadgets, issued an advisory late last week that left it up to the airlines to set their own rules. Delta has already expanded its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players. With the arrival of new "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more vulnerable to interference, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movie...