Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never accepts a mission unless the family, the State Department and the country holding the hostage all invite him to mediate. Early, his Kenyan co-pilot and an Australian nurse were captured by Kerubino's men on Nov. 1, when their Red Cross plane landed at an airstrip near Gogrial. The plane was seized because it had also been carrying five wounded fighters of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, with which Kerubino's forces had been feuding for local power amid a war with the Khartoum government in the north...
...Iraq's chemical-weapons production capability, along with 21 chemical-weapons storage sites. But the Pentagon has said the timing and methods of its pinpoint attacks minimized the spread of the poison bombed by the allies. And it says there were no reports of massive Iraqi casualties near the chemical-weapons targets...
...American-run training center in downtown Riyadh, an attack that killed seven people including five U.S. advisers. Chop-chop square is also likely to be the destination of some if not all of the 40 suspects the Saudis now have in custody for last June's Khobar Towers bombing near Dhahran, a blast that took the lives of 19 U.S. airmen. Chop-chop makes fast work of sticky problems...
Over the past 15 years, the Saudis contend there has been a pattern of Iranian subversion against Saudi Arabia. The tactics have ranged from bringing agents in on rubber boats to smuggling them across the Yemeni border. Riyadh says some infiltrators are employed in or near Saudi military installations; others have allegedly agitated radical elements of the Shi'ite community...
...middle of the migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread. Since the 1890s, numerous fossils of Homo erectus have been found on the island, but scientists were particularly intrigued by more than a dozen partial skulls found near the villages of Ngandong and Sambungmacan in the 1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated to be anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 years old, among the youngest Homo erectus remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however...