Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mogadishu street where Cliff Wolcott died on Oct. 3 last year doesn't even have a name. For Wolcott, one of 15 helicopter pilots who took part in the ill-fated operation aimed at capturing warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, luck ran out when he spotted several armed Somalis firing rocket-propelled grenades at his Black Hawk attack helicopter. Turning the craft broadside to give his gunners a bet- ter shot, Wolcott became a perfect target. A grenade exploded into the side of the chopper. "Super six-one is going down," he yelled into his headset, "Six-one is going...
...Detroit judge declined to dismiss the last remaining charge against Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the aggressive advocate of taking one's life as an option for the terminally ill, and ordered him to stand trial in the assisted suicide of a man with Lou Gehrig's disease...
...resist the urge to comment on this monstrosity, it predictably couldn't resist. "Confessions of a two-timer" was definitely the most humorous (and probably most offensive) piece; still, the Edge's two center pieces best illustrate their sheer idiocy. The first was an editorial moralizing about the ill effects to violence in inner cities, followed immediately by a spread shouting the virtues of paint ball ("I blew away three people in one day. It was intense," reads a blow quote). Pass the beer, dude...
...Kansas City, Missouri, households receiving food stamps, one- third were found to be not entitled. Aid workers were forced to close down the program and later announced an amnesty to persuade impostors to turn in their ill-gotten stamps. Other abuses: a 600% price hike for towing mobile homes to higher ground; flood-damaged, though perfunctorily spruced-up autos pouring into used-car lots...
Clinton had better get the answer right. Many critics believe the ultimatum was a hasty, ill-thought-out move, "a classic example of foreign policy by CNN," as one Democratic congressional aide puts it. Be that as it may, the stakes go far beyond Bosnia: in the opinion of not a few critics, thugs around the world, from Zhirinovsky in Russia to Kim Il Sung in North Korea, are watching Bosnia for clues as to how far the U.S. can be pushed, and how it responds to the challenge...