Word: east
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...hurricane, on the other hand, was kind of disappointing. Floyd tore up a few trees, ripped off a few roofs, flooded a lot of East Coast highways. It was blamed for 13 deaths, mostly of the car-plows-into-the-downed-tree variety. People had to be rescued from rooftops and trees, and from waterlogged autos. Loyal owners photogenically carried their dogs to high ground. Trains didn?t run on time. But the forces of nature were nothing compared to the gale force of the media. This was a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse, and the stand...
Like Bush, Roosevelt fled from the East after completing his studies...
...their government?s Clintonesque "Third Way" policies. Schroeder?s ruling Social Democratic Party has been humbled in state elections twice in as many weeks as the party?s traditional support base stayed home to protest the chancellor?s proposed sweeping welfare cuts. Last Sunday?s elections in the former East German state of Thuringia saw Schroeder?s party not only turfed out of power, but also humiliated by finishing third behind the communists. With the eastern state of Saxony due to vote Sunday, the party is bracing for more bad news, and resistance to Schroeder?s leadership is mounting. "Schroeder...
...Aussies are going in, and they're prepared for the worst. Prime Minister John Howard warned the nation Wednesday to expect casualties, after Australia heeded a U.N. request to head up a mission to restore order to East Timor by "all necessary measures." The first Australians will arrive by the weekend to head up a multinational force of 8,000 drawn mostly from Asian countries. And ending the violence in the territory will be their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements...
...meant very little on the ground. "There are different power centers competing for control over Indonesia, and all decisions have to be negotiated among them," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Jakarta has effectively admitted that it's lost control of at least some of its own forces in East Timor. The New York Times reports that General Prabowo Subianto, a close ally of the former dictator Suharto and a rival to current military leader General Wiranto, wields considerable influence among officers on the island. That, together with rising nationalist sentiment against international intervention and the Indonesian government that authorized...