Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the beginning it was clear that Yeltsin's primary goal was to make certain the invading guerrillas did not get back to their base. That would have left him open to a repetition of the political blow he suffered when a similar gang raided the Russian town of Budyonnovsk last June and then vanished into Chechnya's mountains. Yeltsin has been ill, and his popularity rating is low. The political medicine he needs is an image of strong leadership, so he unleashed furious force on Pervomaiskoye. Last week's operation, says General Boris Gromov, who commanded Soviet forces...
...management consultant who organizes citizen-led anti-crime groups as part of a federal program. And the man who brought in Wrice and his ideas was Fred Stansbury, the police chief who arrived in Taylor in 1993, on an April day when a local teenager was killed in a gang fight. "We wanted a program where the community felt it had a proprietary interest," he says...
...felons from their firearms and stemming the flow of cheap, illegal handguns. Chicago is currently celebrating a decline in homicides from 930 in 1994 to 823 last year. Police think part of the reason might be that Illinois' new, stricter penalties for felonies involving a firearm have persuaded many gang members and drug dealers to leave the guns at home. "We'll arrest a whole crew and still find no guns," says Paul Jenkins, the Chicago police department's director of news affairs. But while the anecdotal evidence is suggestive, it is nothing like firm. "If we knew the reason...
...When police interest waned and community donations dried up, she and Ned financed their own hunt by closing their art gallery, selling their Bentley and moving with their son into a smaller house. They tracked bogus leads to Oklahoma and Nevada, visited the Seattle headquarters of a motorcycle gang rumored to have snatched Amy, persuaded Texas officials to exhume an unidentified body and got Unsolved Mysteries to air a TV segment on the case in 1992. After Ned died of lung cancer two years ago, Billig, who also suffered from the disease, still prodded the fbi and local police...
...glittering cast of characters includes a disgruntled Iraqi administration and the vital members of the White House gang. Davis also offers the twist of using the real-life figures of political life that we've come to know and revile. This allows us the comic relief of seeing our fine Arkansan leader in unguarded moments: "That's bullshit!" or "He's going to start World War III!" Or fair Saddam's familial side, "slapping his son-in-law on the back." What...