Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate unanimously passed a sweeping drug control bill late Thursday night--after shooting down a controversial amendment that would have allowed drug enforcement agents to open fire on airborne drug traffickers...
Undoubtedly, one of President Mobutu's greatest achievements has been the Angolan cease fire agreement which was signed on June 22 in Gbadolite, Zaire. Although the peace process in Angola is not complete, the fact is that President Mobutu took the first step toward peace in Angola by bringing the two combatants together for the first time since the war began fourteen years...
...plan which turns management of one of the most impoverished school districts in the metropolitan area over to Boston University (B.U.) continues to draw fire from community members nearly one month after its initial implementation...
Though he can hire and fire the country's most powerful men, it seems he has no clear blueprint of the system he wants to build in place of the socialism that has failed. -- Shevardnadze and Baker talk turkey in Wyoming. -- In an exclusive pair of interviews, El Salvador's President and rebel leader explain why peace may now be possible...
Arab League envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi, who brokered the deal, promised that an immediate cease-fire would permit residents of battle-ravaged Beirut "to reopen their shops and return to their homes." The plan also calls for a lifting of blockades on Lebanese port cities. If the cease-fire holds, ! Lebanon's parliament is expected to convene this week to discuss political reforms demanded by the country's Muslim majority...