Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gibbons '99, co-president of the co-op, said he was pleased because the unique study break was finally recognized this year. Two years ago, he stood on a table wearing nothing but boxers and read poetry aloud, but the guard took no action...
...right-wing paramilitary groups that are notorious drug traffickers. A dysfunctional federal government and a feckless military cling to the nation's urban midsection. And more than 20,000 Marxist guerrillas lord over the vast south, where they control Colombia's borders, make a fortune on kidnappings and guard the coca harvests used to make cocaine. Add in the thousands of refugees fleeing massacres perpetrated by all sides, and America has a backyard Balkans for the 21st century...
...much it still didn't know in 1995, when Saddam's brother-in-law, Lieut. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, defected to Jordan and laid out for his debriefers the details of Saddam's elaborate concealment system. It was operated, Kamel told the CIA, by the Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization, the same outfits that serve as Saddam's personal and palace guards...
Americans were confused as to who their enemy was. They launched bombing raids to attack Iraq's Republican Guard [NATION, Dec. 28-Jan. 4] when the real danger to the U.S. was in the Republican Congress! PAUL KELLY Victoria...
Sunday's meeting marked the changing of the guard for the council. Beth A. Stewart '00 gave her closing remarks, paving the way for Noah Z. Seton '00 to take over. Unfortunately, the council did not kick things off in 1999 the way it should have, by reducing the size of the council from 90 to 60; and by deciding to have a campus-wide referendum on the best way to spend the recent windfall...