Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acutely aware that the Games were a big, inviting terrorist target, and Vice President Al Gore personally reviewed all the security arrangements for Atlanta. Indeed, the bombing on Saturday occurred in the midst of what amounts to an armed camp--with 30,000 law-enforcement officers deployed to protect 10,000 athletes and 2 million fans. In addition, 11,000 National Guard and active-duty military personnel are on Olympics duty, including more than 500 Delta Force and SEAL-Team 6 commandos, airmen from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and specially trained U.S. Army Rangers...
...lesson learned throughout the region from the staggering death tolls, sums up one senior U.S. diplomat, is "if you don't strike first, you risk annihilation." That belief led to last week's military coup in Burundi. When the coalition government designed to protect the interests of both sides invited foreign military intervention last month to impose security as a prelude to all party talks, government figures were denounced as traitors at home by Hutu and Tutsi extremists alike. Both groups feared that the outside forces would help their enemies to victory and endanger their very existence...
...Dole strategists would rather keep bottled up. "I've had it with the Dole campaign," Newt Gingrich groused to a colleague. Gingrich will focus instead on re-electing his majority, staging eight seminars on how lawmakers should market their agenda. (Example: Don't say "cut" Medicare, say "preserve and protect.") A Gingrich spokesman denies that the Speaker and Dole have gone separate ways. But John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, says, "There's been a realization on Newt's part that the Dole campaign is going to manage itself...
...often have in the past, TIME's Dean Fischer reports that the U.S. may be pushing it a little too far. "The Saudis are getting tired of this," he says. "They have their own financial problems that are pretty severe." But Fischer adds that while U.S. troops continue to protect the Saudis, without any reprieve in the foreseeable future, "It seems only appropriate that they should split the bill." -->