Word: hail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hail the Universal Bourse...
...spark international interest in African films throughout the United States, The African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF), in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has organized the African Film Festival Traveling Series. Seven films are presented during this tour of African cinema. The films hail from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania...
...notebook for May 18 is significant. "Contact 0805. 1 V.C. KIA..." We had been patrolling a gorge fed by a rushing stream that covered up our noise. For once, our point squad spotted the V.C. before they spotted us. For once, we did the ambushing. We nailed them. A hail of fire dropped several V.C., and the rest fled. We approached gingerly. One man lay motionless on the ground, the first Viet Cong that I could definitely confirm we had killed in action. He lay on his back, gazing up at us with sightless eyes. The man was slightly built...
...these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to be executed...
European Union peace mediator Carl Bildt unpeacefully departed Sarajevo today in a hail of bullets and shells. TheUnited Nationsblamed the Serbs for the attacks on Bildt's car and U.N. helicopter. No one was hurt...