Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...die is cast, the Marines are sailed in and the 82nd Airborne stands by. Clinton will wait until August, when Congress is out of session, to send in the troops. Maybe we will ask later if this is really necessary later How quickly a nation forgets, though...
International relief efforts have snarled while thousands of Rwandan refugees continue to die. Since the weekend, U.S. planes carrying relief supplies have circled for hours over the tiny, clogged airport at Goma, Zaire, then landed in Kenya or Uganda because they were running low on fuel. (Zairian authorities charged a fee of $2,000 from each U.S. aircraft that did land.) Many aid workers are blaming the foul-ups on French forces who have run the airport since mid-June. U.N. officials, meanwhile, suspended other American flights because they had received more aid than they could distribute amid a shortage...
Well...yes, it is. Maybe not if you're a die-hard pacifist, or if you don't like Jamie Lee Curtis, or if you get scared by explosions. But every one else should enjoy this movie...
Minimum civilian casualties: When the horrified Helen asks Harry if he's ever killed anyone, he replies, "Yes, but they were all bad." Therein lies Cameron's movie philosophy. Try to avoid killing civilians. That works fairly well here. Bad people die, and die in interesting ways, too. Almost all of the good people live...
...obscurity in the Soviet Union and returned to his native land dressed in the uniform of a Soviet army captain. Some people did not even believe he was who he claimed to be. Kim Il Sung? Wasn't that the name of a famous guerrilla? Didn't he die fighting the Japanese in Manchuria years before? Could this fleshy 33-year-old be that same hero? Soon, however, no one would deny him the name. When he died last week of a heart attack brought on, according to Pyongyang, by "mental strain," Kim had not only outlasted such totalitarian contemporaries...