Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is evidence for much more serious charges against Seselj. When fighting broke out in 1992, he became one of the three key Serb paramilitary leaders who provided the shock troops of ethnic cleansing. He recruited and commanded a rabid band of "volunteers" dubbed the Chetniks in honor of Serbia's World War II royalist antifascist squads. Dressed in natty black jackets, the Chetniks left a well-documented trail of blood as they rampaged across Croatia and Bosnia, all the while bragging they were acting under Seselj's command. They exaggerate, he says. "I just happen to have...
...organizations, has been criticized in the foreign-aid community for evangelizing in situations when lifesaving should have been paramount. (General Norman Schwarzkopf has also sniped in print about Franklin's insistence on sending thousands of Arabic-language New Testaments into Saudi Arabia while the general was trying hard to honor Islamic sensibilities during Operation Desert Storm.) But in hot spots like the Rwandan capital of Kigali, the outfit's reputation is solid...
...would seem the height of cockeyed optimism for anyone to try to unshoe him; yet not one, but two cockeyed optimists are contending in North Carolina's Democratic primary next week for the sporting honor of challenging the Senator when he runs for a fifth term in November. One is Harvey Gantt, an architect and former two-term mayor of Charlotte who pulled off a respectable 47% to Helms' 53% of the vote when he tried to dislodge Helms in 1990. The other is Charlie Sanders, a millionaire physician, educator, onetime pharmaceuticals executive and a newcomer to politics...
Most people in the game acknowledged that the honor was long overdue the captain of the only team to ever win five consecutive World Series titles...
...have the stats--stats alone would indicate that he deserves the honor no more than a Bobby Bonds or an Al Oliver...