Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...words sounded drearily familiar. Bosnia's Serbs "have gone too far," intoned German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. "This is where we draw the line." NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes asserted that "the international community cannot accept any longer to be humiliated" -- just as so many other statesmen had insisted so many, many times in the past three years...
...made threats but backed down. This time, would the strikes continue, hostages or no? Following the Serbian bridge attack and French counterattack, there were hints of more bombing, notably from U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, who cut short a visit to Italy to meet with his British and German counterparts at London's Gatwick airport on Saturday. At a news conference, Perry declared that the credibility of the international community was at stake. But the impression he left was that further confrontation was on hold -- as one Washington official had put it earlier, "to let tempers cool...
Andre Agassi showed a bit of his pre-Brooke Shields form at the quarterfinals of the German Open in Hamburg. Having lost to Spain's Sergi Bruguera on the court where Monica Seles was stabbed in April 1993, the top-seeded player made an unprintable remark to a spectator who complained about the quality of the match. "Are you going to get a knife and chase me now?" Agassi then asked. He was fined...
...youngest daughters, Elisheba, 3, and Rachel, 13, who often play in the park across the street. His oldest daughter, Sara, 19, who works as a waitress, has rented a house up the street. On some days, Weaver sits and sips coffee from a mug emblazoned with the German flag. When visitors drop by, he mixes White Russians in the kitchen. Outside on the small lawn, a jumble of bicycles lies scattered across the sidewalk. A battered white gas guzzler hunkers in the driveway. He says he is not working. Not doing much. Just waiting...
McClane's nemesis this time is Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons, with bleached blond hair), founder of an East German special forces unit and brother of Hans Gruber, the man McClane dropped from the thirty-second floor of the Nakitomi building two movies ago. Simon is a man with terrible anger (towards McClane), a propensity for migraine headaches and access to more than a ton of powerful liquid explosive. A deadly combination...