Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington, Attorney General Janet Reno, who ordered the final, fatal push on the compound on April 19, repeated the prosecution's interpretation. "The findings that these deaths ((of the four agents)) were not justified makes clear that the government had a responsibility to act," she said. The plans for the February attack were deficient, however, as the government has admitted. In September, the Treasury Department published a scathing report on the raid that described faulty planning, fouled-up communications and, worst of all, a fatal misjudgment by commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who decided...
Recognizing the challenge of proving any defendant had fired any of the fatal shots, prosecutors charged them with conspiracy to murder, in addition to murder. Conspiracy would require the jury to decide they had been involved in an agreement or a plan to ambush the agents. Calling more than 120 witnesses, including ATF agents, Texas Rangers and gun dealers, prosecutors tried to prove the 10 men and one woman on trial -- three of whom were away from the compound on the day of the shooting -- knew in advance of the impending ATF raid and were bent on killing federal officers...
...Lillehammer Games began in panoply and kitsch, they seemed, especially to Americans, painfully ill-starred. From murder and mayhem to medical peril, from fatal accidents to merely mortifying tumbles, from wolf- pack aggression by American reporters to spontaneous affronts by the egalitarian hosts toward the pampered panjandrums of the International Olympic Committee, the news often evoked disillusionment or dismay...
...bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...
...most recently a NATO resolution last August authorizing air strikes to prevent the "strangulation" of Sarajevo -- had sputtered to nothing. For that very reason, argued a NATO official, if the Serbs defy the new ultimatum "we have to attack. If we didn't, NATO's credibility would suffer a fatal blow...