Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only case in which he has testified, Horowitz says he definitely felt pressure to say what the attorneys who hired him wanted. Horwitz testified as an historian in a case about who owns the land under the Atlantic Ocean...
...easy to paralyze. It turns the country into a republic containing two "entities." American officials insist this is not a partition and that Bosnia is a unified state, but other observers, including Bosnians, are not so sure. The Bosnian Serb holdings, the Republika Srpska, total 49% of the land. The other entity is a federation of Muslims-- called Bosniacs in the documents--and Bosnian Croats. All citizens will be free to travel in both parts of the country, and roadblocks and checkpoints are to come down. Both entities will have presidents and legislatures, and so will the central government, which...
...this is a turning point for your country and the Balkans, and we need your leadership here." A while later, Clinton phoned all three Presidents, who hovered around a speakerphone. It was agreed that the corridor would remain unchanged and the Bosnian Croats would give up most of the land needed to bring the Serbs back...
...find out by commissioning an outside consultant to run a computer simulation. He came back with a figure of 39 deaths among U.S. forces. Pentagon officials viewed that figure as ridiculously low, and some say there will be several hundred casualties, caused by anything from auto accidents to land mines and sniper attacks...
Breaking Through the Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped...