Word: ground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States should do its part too. President Clinton's national security advisor, Sandy Berger, said yesterday that the U.S. would lend logistical support, communications and intelligence for the peacekeeping mission, but would leave the leadership on the ground to Australia. This is an appropriate role for the U.S. to play...
Whatever the details of the peacekeeping mission, it must come quickly. By all accounts, the violence in East Timor is intensifying. Australia said yesterday its troops could be on the ground in three days. They can't land a day too soon...
...facts and proposing that a reputable outsider head the new investigation. The extremely deliberate Reno would accede to all that later but seemed to be plodding two steps behind the nimbler FBI director. It wasn't the first time Freeh rushed to stake claim on the moral high ground. Reno's supporters say she deserved better...
...face was bad, so dark it was blue--you couldn't see any sign of laughter in it. He cut us with the ax one by one. I was number five. The adults were begging, and the children were crying. They put my hands on the ground and cut them off quickly, the left first. I didn't feel anything, or just something like a sting. Everything went dark, and I fell over on the ground. After a while I got up and walked a little way, but then I blacked out again and fell over. I don't know...
They pushed my right hand onto the ground. I was shouting and begging them. I watched when they cut it off. I was looking at the stump, watching the way the veins vibrated when the blood flowed out. It was very painful, and I was shouting. When they grabbed my other hand, I blacked out, so I didn't feel them cut it off. After they'd cut off both my hands, I told them, "Kill me, because I am no use in the world!" They told me I was making a noise, and they said it was because...