Word: renewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...setback when, on Wednesday, Pulikovsky jumped the gun and began pounding the Chechen capital with heavy artillery, bombs and rockets, at least 12 hours before his deadline. Thousands of panicked civilians trying to flee were caught in the cross fire. As the bombardment intensified, Lebed sped to Grozny to renew talks with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen military commander, calling the Russian offensive "a bad joke." He quickly "guaranteed" there would be "no storming of Grozny" and he would "see to it" that the Russian generals obeyed...
TOKYO: Tensions over U.S. military bases in Okinawa are rising once again as the one-year anniversary of the rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen nears. About 3,000 landowners are refusing to renew their leases with the U.S. military, leading to a court battle between the ruling government and Okinawa's Governor Masahide Ota. On Monday, Japan's Supreme Court, as expected, upheld the government policy of forcing landowners to lease land to the U.S. military. Outside the court, dozens of anti-base demonstrators protested the ruling, while others from the right wing -->