Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...polls, none of this stuff would be given any currency," Clinton confided last Thursday. "The focus is always on the front runner." Clinton is right, of course. If Harkin were ahead of the field, his war record would be reviled. In the past, Harkin claimed he flew combat missions in Vietnam; in fact, he merely ferried fighters to the war zone. If Kerrey had the edge, the child-labor-law violations at the restaurant chain he founded would lead the campaign coverage. "This is the big leagues," says Paul Tsongas, whose own big-bucks lobbying for businesses is now getting...
...stay will be extremely brief." And so it was. After doctors said the guerrilla leader was unable to talk, a magistrate who had ordered police to hold him for questioning rescinded the order. At that, Habash decided to skip further treatment. He hurried to Orly airport on Saturday and flew back to his home in Tunis...
...keeps around Baghdad as a kind of personal army. Nor is it certain that American air power could turn the tide -- or even that it could be fully employed. The U.S. has only about 150 ground-based warplanes left in the area, less than a tenth of those that flew in Desert Storm, and some of those operate out of Incirlik in Turkey. The Turks might never let them take off. Ankara's top priority is to prevent formation of anything resembling an independent Kurdish state inside Iraq that inevitably would try to break off a piece of Turkey; Turkish...
...violence is all the more demoralizing because only a few months ago they were confident the worst was over. Now, demands for increased security have prompted the government in London to send two more army battalions to the province, bringing military strength to 17,800. Prime Minister John Major flew to Belfast last week and declared that the I.R.A. "cannot bomb Northern Ireland out of its way of life, and they cannot bomb the British government out of its policy." He added, "The I.R.A. are not going to win. Not now and not ever...
...also an Academy Award winning producer who has had a hand in critically acclaimed motion pictures, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The China Syndrome...