Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighting us," says a senior Bush adviser, "they may turn to fighting each other." The advisers believe postwar stability in Iraq and the region is better served if the country's next ruler is "someone in the clan" -- one of Saddam's close associates, probably a relative from his hometown of Tikrit...
...Guards, first organized in the late 1950s, became Saddam Hussein's creation in the 1970s, when they were commissioned to serve as his bodyguards. His original recruits for the Guard units were from his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, and today the Guards' titular head is Hussein Kamel Hassan, 37, Saddam...
...common. When Walesa supporters complained that Jews in high places were hiding their ancestry, he made a winking reply about the need for "clarity." Mazowiecki was one of those rumored to be part Jewish. In one of the campaign's most dismal moments, the bishop of Mazowiecki's hometown of Plock felt called upon to affirm the Prime Minister's Catholic ancestry all the way back to the 15th century...
...Childhood friends return to their hometown to battle an evil force that takes the shape of a clown. TV rarely ventures into real horror, and this clunky mini-series based on Stephen King's novel shows why. There are more shudders in an average episode of Twin Peaks...
...NASTY GIRL. A Bavarian schoolgirl starts poking into her hometown's Nazi past and becomes the local scourge. Michael Verhoeven turns social satire into exhilarating comedy. And Lena Stolze is a perky paradigm for young Germans unafraid of old demons...