Word: departs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduation day nears, and the 1994-95 sports season winds down, there will depart Cambridge a talented group of seniors that has accomplished as much as any senior class in recent memory. But they deserve much more than just accolades, so I have decided to leave them a little something extra. In fact, if I were to pass from this world today, I would leave to each and every one of them something, if I could...
...must leave the country beginning March 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. The soldiers have managed to keep the peace in Croatia since being deployed there in the beginning of 1992, but Tudjman has concluded that they mainly serve to protect the Serbs' hold on Krajina. If the troops depart, there will be nothing to prevent the 105,000-man Croatian army and 40,000 Krajina Serbs--all heavily armed--from resuming their...
...better hurry. Both Croatian and Krajina Serb forces are preparing to fight the moment the U.N. soldiers depart--or worse, even before they go. Croatia and Muslim-led Bosnia last week signed a military alliance intended to squeeze the Krajina and Bosnian Serbs. The Serbs, in turn, are digging in. "It is abundantly clear that military forces on both sides of the zone of separation are deepening their defensive positions," says Yasushi Akashi, the U.N. special representative in the region. Both sides are building bunkers, cutting trenches and moving heavy weapons into offensive positions...
Singing as they sailed from Mogadishu under escort by U.S. and Italian troops, 903 Bangladeshi soldiers ended their frustrating U.N. peacekeeping tour in Somalia. The remaining U.N. contingent of 1,500 Pakistanis is scheduled to depart Thursday, the last of a 38,000-strong force that failed to establish a democratic government. Once the peacekeepers are gone, the country's warring clans are expected to fight over the Mogadishu's air and sea ports. The Somali people, meanwhile, will fend for themselves. "All of us hoped against hope the Somalis would get their house in order" by now, Joint Chiefs...
...daily Le Monde and ordered the Americans to leave, are catching flak. They support Premier Edouard Balladur, whose presidential campaign was already tangled in a wiretapping scandal. "It's a campaign maneuver," said Philippe Vasseur, a Chirac backer. "They were trying to create a smoke screen." In Washington, State Department officials said it was unlikely that the four accused Americans who are U.S. diplomats would depart before their posting ended...