Word: raid
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PERVOMAYSKAYA, DAGESTAN: In a tiny Dagestani village in a Russian republic that abuts Chechnya, officials have so far failed to negotiate the release of the more than 100 hostages held as human shields by Chechen rebels seeking safe passage home after their raid on the town of Kizlar. "A convoy of 11 buses, packed with hungry, exhausted women and children, and two trucks filled up with corpses, sits in the lazily falling snow on the frozen mud road," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Some 250 Chechen rebels, their guns and bazookas at ready and their fingers itchy on triggers, have...
DAGESTAN, RUSSIA: A blown-up bridge has stopped buses carrying Chechen rebels returning home after their raid on the Russian town of Kizlyar. The rebels, who earlier freed most of the 2,000 hostages they had held overnight in Kizlyar in return for safe passage back to the Chechen republic, have threatened to start shooting the 160 remaining hostages unless the Russian Interior Ministry allows them to use another route. Although the Interfax news agency reports that Russian helicopters have fired several shots at the bus convoy, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised that no action would be taken that...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...
...comments was confidential at the time. According to Kennedy's papers, there was discussion at a White House meeting in 1993 that included Clinton, several aides and Clinton's personal attorneys, about the coincidence that Vincent Foster killed himself on the same day that subpoenas were issued to raid the office of David Hale, a former judge who accused the President of wrongdoing. "July 20th: FBI issues subpoena and took records of municipal judge named Hale," read the notes. "Also day VF killed himself. Factor." At another point Kennedy writes: "Vacuum Rose Law Files . . . Documents -- never go out quietly...
...next recession, with demands on Medicaid rising and the feds saying, "That's your problem," the states will be the site of an awful showdown. The powerful elderly and nursing-home lobbies will be fighting for Medicaid expansions to serve seniors. The only pot of money big enough to raid will be education, a state's biggest expense, which averages 30% of state spending. If state legislatures bow to pressure and steal from the classroom, communities will have to raise property taxes to protect their local schools...