Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought prosperity to the group. Two members inherited about $300,000, allowing the cult to rent houses, called "crafts," in Denver and later the Dallas-Fort Worth region. (In the Rancho Santa Fe area, the group appears to have rented two different crafts.) Thus Applewhite had enough assets to initiate the cult's last great recruitment drive, on New Year's Day 1994. An estate sale was held at the Escondido mansion, raising money to buy four vans and gear to tour the country...
...countries covered by the arms ban still live in poverty. With no communist threat and the countries mostly at peace with one another, the last thing their Presidents needed was American attack jets at $24 million a copy. "We should be promoting arms control in the region first, not arms sales," says Bernard Aronson, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Latin America during the Bush Administration...
...feel like we played well, but maybe not our best," junior Heather Brown said. "Of course we'd rather win both games, but they're number two in the region, and we hung with them and played tough both games...
...aircraft vanished from radar screens, makes the possibility that Captain Button stole the plane more remote. But the theory won't go away until search and rescue crews come up with the hard evidence, a difficult task considering the four feet of new snow that has buried the entire region...
...question, he is going to Kinshasa. Meanwhile, another branch of Kabila's army was closing on Lubumbashi, capital of the mineral-rich province Shaba. Kabila will be welcomed as always, not least by the Western companies that hope to revive the crumbling cobalt and copper mining operations in the region. "Kabila has what he calls a "commission" set up in each town, especially mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen, to foreign companies, trying to get the mines up and working again. He dickers his own deals." That was the case in Mbuji-Mayi, which...