Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five Americans, dressed in the flowing cotton shirts and pants of the region, burst through the door: Jimmie Carter, second-in-command at the FBI's Washington metropolitan field office, agent Brad Garrett, and three members of the bureau's hostage rescue team. They shoved the slight, bearded, Pakistani-born Kansi, 33, to the floor, cuffed his hands behind his back and identified themselves as FBI agents. "Who are you?" one of them demanded. "F___ you," Kansi snapped in his lightly accented English, and began screaming for help in his native Pashto language. Garrett knelt beside Kansi and took...
...glare of artificial rockets, a proud nation will wipe away the stain of shame. President Jiang Zemin himself will preside as the motherland reclaims a piece of itself, instantly replacing the councils and crown symbols of British rule with the new authority of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chinese feel that a historic wrong has been righted. It showed in the faces of the elderly pensioners who gathered a few weeks ago in the mainland city of Shenyang for their own humble handover ceremony. The Old People's Singing Group of Xinghur Park caroled their joy at Hong...
...only it were that simple. The people of Hong Kong embrace neither of these extremes. They share pride in the reunification of China, and they harbor some misgivings about their new landlords, but they're ready to give their new system a chance. The awkward title of Special Administrative Region, HKSAR as it will be known, signals just how hard it will be to implement Deng Xiaoping's promise of "one country, two systems" with a "high degree of autonomy." At issue for Chinese on both sides of the new internal border is not only whether Hong Kong's system...
This past weekend, I went to the region to deliver in person the message that if the parties want international acceptance or our aid, they must meet their commitments--including full cooperation with the international war crimes tribunal...
Haut's press release caused a sensation. RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION, proclaimed the Roswell Daily Record on July 8. Word of the "capture" quickly spread, and the phone lines in the offices of Sheriff Wilcox and First Lieut. Haut were jammed for hours with press inquiries from around the world...