Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, after only 18 hours, the FBI released Jacks and his companion Gary Land. However, according to sources close to the Oklahoma City case, the government has been quietly looking for another "Robert Jacks." The FBI has talked with Maloney, and believes he is credible when he says that several months before the bombing, he met McVeigh, Nichols and, most important, a third man, whom the FBI would very much like to question. An investigation for Impact, the TV newsmagazine produced by CNN and TIME, has uncovered not only the mystery of the Oklahoma case's missing...
...times" foretold in the New Testament. They also suggest that the comet might be the object described in Revelation 8: 10 as a great star named Wormwood that "fell from heaven, blazing like a torch." Wormwood, according to the Bible, destroys a third of almost everything: people, land, rivers and seas. Others claim that the comet is some kind of alien mother ship "under intelligent control...
...want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding practiced. "Whenever there is the first hint of a counterclockwise symbol on a weather map that a hurricane might hit land," Brokaw added, "Mr. Hard News is down there wrapped around a lamppost...
...words of the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, since 1967, "The Israeli government has adopted a policy of systematic and deliberate discrimination against the Palestinian population in Jerusalem in all matters relating to land expropriation, planning and building." It is this discrimination which explains why the majority of land expropriated has come from Arab owners. It explains why of 38,500 housing units built in East Jerusalem, not one has been for Palestinians. It explains why such a disproportion of housing built since 1967--88 percent--has been for Jews. Since 1990 less than 5 percent of houses built...
...touting of Israeli democracy is more problematical. Israel has historically been vastly more "murderous" than the Palestinians, in terms of numbers of civilians killed. These killings continue, as the families of the 200 Palestinian civilians killed since the Oslo agreement will attest. And democracy? Vast tracts of "public" land in Israel are owned by the Jewish National Fund, whose assets exist to benefit "persons of Jewish religion, race or origin." The Jewish Agency, which has a similar mandate, controls much of the development budget: through a variety of legal ruses, state benefits to large families have been tailored largely...