Word: raids
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Barack Obama grew up long after the 1950s air-raid drills that sent students scurrying under their desks, but the mushroom cloud was never far from his imagination. He wrote his senior thesis on nuclear arms reduction and quoted reggae star Peter Tosh in an essay about the "flowering of the nuclear Freeze movement" for a student magazine. Now that onetime activist possesses the power to summon the world. At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, he gathered representatives of 47 nations (including 38 heads of state) for the largest diplomatic event convened by a U.S. President since 1945. Obama...
...list produced a number of surprises. SC Johnson, which makes household products such as Ziploc, Raid and Windex, debuted on the list in the top 10. That can be chalked up to a recent ad campaign to familiarize consumers with the parent company's name and values, says Robert Fronk, a Harris senior vice president who oversaw the survey. Another newcomer: Goldman Sachs, which made the list for the first time, at No. 56, four spots from the bottom. "Here's a company that members of the public would never interact with suddenly on the list," says Fronk. Credit...
...Covenant Congregations Conference. "I mingled with a lot of people there, and there was not a shred of sympathy for what happened in Oklahoma," an attendee told Time. According to this source, some participants felt the carnage was understandable retaliation for the 1993 deaths of children during the government raid in Waco, Texas...
...family members who made it into the courtroom gave the impression that Hutaree was more ragtag than a fearsome killing machine. Brittany Byrant, 18, the fiancé of Stone's son David Jr., said the FBI was gruff during the raid, pointing guns to her head and ordering her to put her six-month-old child on the floor. "He wasn't racist," Bryant said of her fiancé, as she sat in the last row of the courtroom. "I have friends who are Arabic and colored, and David didn't care." Next to her was Donna Stone, the elder...
...March 9, three terrorist suspects were killed by Indonesian police during a raid in Jakarta. Forensic experts carefully examined their bodies but kept their conclusions from the public until the following day, when, in a landmark address to the Australian parliament, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that one of the dead was Dulmatin, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings. It was a matter close to his host's heart: The top bomb-technician, who had a $10 million bounty on his head, set off bombs that killed 202 people on the Indoneisan holiday isle, 88 of them...