Word: fisted
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...Clinton hailed the arrest. ``This is a major step forward in the fight against terrorism. Terrorism will not pay. Terrorists will pay.'' Upon hearing news of Yousef's fall, James Fox, former director of the FBI's New York office, couldn't contain his elation. ``I just put my fist in the air and said, `Yes! At last!' '' Yousef was ``the key man'' in the bombing, Fox says. ``I doubt there would have been an explosion without him.'' At the first round of trials for the plotters last year, Yousef's name came up again and again...
...Iron Fist Ending the inhumane disaster of the Air France hijacking by Algerian terrorists [Jan. 9] took courage, insight and determination by French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most...
...chilling story: some 5,000 confirmed dead, 200 still missing, 25,000 injured, 300,000 homeless. As exhausted relief workers sifted through the rubble of what was once the country's second busiest port, survivors waited stoically in line for hours for a small bottle of water and a fist-size ball of rice. Offers of help came from all over the world, and as each day revealed new horrors, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said that even in a country with a long history of earthquakes, the Kobe tragedy was "a disaster that nobody could even imagine." At week...
...almost immediately. ``I was only gone for about an hour, but when I got back to my apartment, I'd been burglarized. My stereo, TV, money, everything,'' says the 46-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin, handyman. As Thomlin tells the story, he slams the nearest piece of wood with his fist. ``You know what really kills me?'' he asks with a bitter chuckle. ``The whole goddam reason I voted was because I'm so sick of crime and the lack of values in this country.'' Now Thomlin relies on his own solution: he keeps a tire iron in his bedroom...
...Russian President must be aware that Chechnya has been a political catastrophe for him. The question is what lessons he will draw from the experience. Will he conclude that restive provinces across Russia can be held in check only with an iron fist? He could be feeling so isolated and friendless that he will throw in with hard-line loyalists in the Defense Ministry and the intelligence services...