Word: hijacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implosion of civil authority in Somalia has created a black hole that sucks in help from the outside and crushes it before it can do much good. Convoy drivers hijack their own cargoes. Relief workers, many of them volunteers and all of them unarmed, have been subjected to death threats, shakedowns, looting and kidnapping. "To send workers out there without defending them is immoral, pure and simple," said Frederick Cuny, an American disaster-management consultant...
...giant McDonnell Douglas facility to the new airport. Blocked by a committee chairman, Perot's top lieutenant, Tom Luce, tried to induce the committee vice chairman to act in the chairman's absence. Luce failed, but the committee chairman, Steven Wolens, howls, "They came in and tried to hijack our committee without regard to protocol or the Texas constitution...
...discovery of the CIA's dealings with B.C.C.I. raises a deeply disturbing question: Did the agency hijack the foreign policy of the U.S. and in the process involve itself in one of the most audacious criminal enterprises in history? Items...
...also shares characteristics with The Godfather's Michael Corleone. Both are intelligent young men whose high ideals are tarnished by a brutal world. In fact, it is idealists who cause most of the trouble. When a group of Arab terrorists known as the One Hundred kill the Pope, hijack a jet carrying the U.S. President's daughter and then murder her to demonstrate that they mean business, F.X.K. responds with force. He destroys a gleaming new city in the Middle Eastern country that harbored the hijackers...
...first chapter, "Hijack," sets up the scenario for Saddam's invasion and how the U.S. and Kuwait failed to read his signals correctly. The authors report that last spring, Saddam demanded "$30 million in fresh money" from Arab leaders to offset costs accrued during the recently ended Iran-Iraq war. "Go and tell them in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf that if they don't give it to me, I will know how to take it," he threatened...