Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serb stronghold just south of Bihac. Together with Captain Bob Wright, 33, who was flying another F-16 on his wing, O'Grady was conducting one of the 69,000 sorties that have been flown during Operation Deny Flight to enforce a United Nations-mandated no-fly zone over northern Bosnia...
...Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes began swarming over the area. Other planes with special infrared scanners, which could detect the warmth of a body moving on the ground, patrolled the mountains as well...
...both the Catholic Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Loyalist paramilitaries. The beatings are used to enforce discipline within their ranks and to combat what they self-righteously call antisocial behavior in their respective communities. Before last August's cease-fire that ended the bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland, the I.R.A. and the Loyalist hard men meted out their punishments by shooting their victims through the knees or ankles. Those grisly crimes blended into the general backdrop of violence, causing only muted outrage. But the 100-plus punishment beatings administered since the cease-fire have become a major focus...
Punishment beatings threaten the optimistic mood of peace that prevails in Northern Ireland. "The cease-fire means absolutely nothing to me now," says Mary Teer, Patrick's mother. Until the I.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitaries give up their vicious beatings, the legacy of the years of violence will continue to haunt Northern Ireland, and the faces of the children of war will continue to show fear...
Capable of planning anything, perhaps. But the police accounts include details that challenge the group's technical proficiencies, portraying it as a cult that couldn't shoot straight. The remote-controlled helicopters, purchased from a dealer in northern Japan for $20,000 each in 1993, crashed during the first two practice sessions. The germ-warfare team, despite experiments with botulism, never produced a working weapon. During one of its experiments, a chemical vaporized into a foul-smelling gas, escaped into the outside air and precipitated, coating nearby cars with brown ooze...