Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their way in. Sweeping aside the Haitian army was the least difficult, least important part of their mission. Ahead loomed the far tougher job of imposing and keeping order in a country ripe for mayhem, then laying the ground for a self- sustaining democracy to take root in a land that for centuries has known + little but grinding poverty and bloody dictatorship...
Cedras' backers are widely thought to have drawn up a hit list of opposition members who would be gunned down as U.S. troops were about to land, peacefully or as an invasion force. At the head of the list, supposedly, is Port-au- Prince Mayor Evans Paul. Some Aristide supporters were said to have asked the U.S. to give them two or three days' warning of an invasion so they could go into hiding...
Starved professional fan that I was, I went to a CFL (that's the Canadian Football League, from the land where ice was born) game back in August...
...side note, both athletes hail from the land of turnpikes. Ferrara comes from Floram Park, New Jersey and the Delbarton School, while Hu comes from Ringwood, New Jersey and Depaul High School. IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS Overall Ivies Team W L W L Harvard 1 0 1 0 Cornell 1 0 1 0 Yale 1 0 1 0 Pennsylvania 1 0 0 0 Dartmouth 0 1 0 0 Brown 0 1 0 1 Columbia 0 1 0 1 Princeton...
...10th Mountain Division, which will play a key part in the postinvasion peacekeeping force. On Friday, Pentagon officials said that the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with 70 helicopters, which can more easily land troops in Haiti. By late this week, the Ike and the U.S.S. Mount Whitney, which will serve as the invasion's command vessel, will leave for the Caribbean. Both ships should be in place by early next week...