Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Five weeks ago, the last frail supply links to Sarajevo were cut off. The city is essentially without fuel, without water, without electricity, without medicine and with barely enough food to last another week. No longer do residents talk of the future. There is only today, and today, for everyone, is a grim struggle for survival. "It has never been this bad before," says Rosa Tutundzic. "I used to have hope, but I can no longer believe we will be saved. It will just go on until we are dead...
...farm pesticides and industrial chemicals churning in the silt-encrusted swamps and ponds marooned by subsiding rivers. While hydrologists anticipate that the sheer volume of water will dilute and neutralize any toxicity, no one knows what dangers, if any, are posed by toxic runoff from hundreds of submerged factories, fuel- storage facilities and waste dumps. "Think of all this stuff making a witches' brew of new compounds," says Kevin Coyle, president of American Rivers, an environmental group in Washington. "We have no precedent...
Seeking to defuse the crisis, Estonian President Lennart Meri consulted with European legal experts. On their advice, Meri refused to sign the aliens act into law and last week called the Estonian parliament back into an emergency session, where more fuel was added to the fire when legislators proposed holding an emergency session to discuss suspending Narva's city council. Should this happen, tensions could get out of hand. As Vladimir Khomyakov, a Narva city-council member, brusquely put it, "This is our homeland; we have no other. The only way out now is autonomy. Otherwise, there will...
...most nationally publicized cases, the saga of Baby Jessica is bound to fuel the movement to change the way the law is applied. The DeBoers' whole legal strategy depended on the courts being willing to shift priority away from parental rights and toward what was in the best interests of the child. That way, even if the Schmidts' claims were considered legally valid, Jessica might still remain with the DeBoers to avoid a traumatic upheaval. The approach, lawyer Scarnecchia acknowledges, was an experiment "in that it says a child's rights are paramount in a custody case...
Meanwhile, the opposition has been honing its defenses. The Fund for the Feminist Majority has assembled 4,000 volunteers for counterdemonstrations. In Philadelphia a local coalition says it can field 500 at once to defend local clinics. Sympathetic restaurants have offered to fuel them with free snacks. The St. Paul police force, which one lawman describes as "massively" prepared, surrounded a clinic with an 8-ft.-high chain-link fence, while the cops in a Cleveland suburb made do with barrels, sandbags and 40 officers...