Word: flash
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Despite Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's constant tease that the Administration will soon flash hot new information, there appears to be nothing in U.S. intelligence reports showing that Iraq has made so great a leap forward in its dangerous arsenal as to require an immediate invasion. As the National Security Council sifts through what it can publish to persuade the public, its chief, Condoleezza Rice, is advising her colleagues that "there's no smoking...
...serving a 12-year sentence for membership in the banned Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, a violent far-left group. The wave of hunger strikes began in January 2001 after police fought radical groups who had taken control of prison dormitories, turning them into no-go areas. FRANCE Flash Floods At least 21 people died and eight people were missing after floods raged through villages and towns in the south of France. Five of the dead were from the village of Aramon, which was inundated when a dam gave way following torrential rain. The d é partement...
...most lethal of Europe's recent disasters, however, was unrelated to the storms that so devastated Central Europe. Tourist settlements near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake blanketed the Eferdinger Basin, an agricultural area west of Linz, and at least seven people died. In Germany, large tracts of Saxony and Bavaria - including much of Dresden - were submerged, with about a dozen people killed. And in Russia, flash floods and tornadoes along the Black Sea coast razed homes and businesses and killed dozens, many of them holidaymakers. It was the wildest flooding to hit the region in more than a century. And it left everyone from homeowners to politicians to scientists wondering why it was happening now. Last...
...Flash forward a few years. Two months ago, East Timor became an independent nation, though at a terrible price. In 1999, when Timorese voted to cut their ties with Indonesia, militia proxies of the Indonesian military went on a murderous rampage that left the country in ruins. Few foreigners have been able to forget the scenes of bloodshed and burning; tourists in East Timor are practically nonexistent. But it's time now to forget. The men who caused the destruction have fled, leaving behind a people basking in freedom and peace. They have also left behind one of the most...