Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American soldiers to Bosnia by next week. "It's part of an enabling force that will set up shop near Tuzla, where the headquarters element of the U.S. sector will be," says Thompson. The military plan calls for an additional 18,000 American troops, mostly from the German-based 1st Armored Division, to supplement a NATO peacekeeping force of 40,000. But those Americans may not get their orders to embark, says Thompson. "The President has put himself into a nasty box by committing the country to this deployment without having asked the country." The White House announced today that...
Ptashne demonstrated his skill with the violin at a party he hosted two weeks ago in his Cambridge home to honor Jannic Nusslein-Vol-hard and Eric Wieschaus. The two German researchers will receive this year's Nobel Prize in medicine in December for their research on the development of fruit-fly embryos...
Ptashne says he was particularly moved by the story of 20th-century German painter Hans Hoffman, who taught many prominent modern artists at his Rhode Island school. Although he was a key figure in the modern art movement, Hoffman did not paint many of his well-known pictures until he was 80 years old, Ptashne says...
...American soldiers to Bosnia by next week. "It's part of an enabling force that will set up shop near Tuzla, where the headquarters element of the U.S. sector will be," says Thompson. The military plan calls for an additional 18,000 American troops, mostly from the German-based 1st Armored Division, to supplement a NATO peacekeeping force of 40,000. But those Americans may not get their orders to embark, says Thompson. "The President has put himself into a nasty box by committing the country to this deployment without having asked the country." The White House announced today that...
...beaten their occupants, sometimes to death. Police and legal authorities have generally condoned these atrocities. In desperation, thousands of East European Gypsies--500,000 in 1991 alone--have applied for asylum in the West. Rather than accept repatriation after a 1992 pact between Germany and Romania, Romanian Gypsies in German relocation camps destroyed their identity cards. They were deported anyway...