Word: retaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the situation was very poorly handled," Plants opined. "The result is inaccurate and I would support it being retaken. We have to really take a look at how we do voting as a whole...
...diplomatic sources have confirmed that the 280 or so "white guys with guns" are indeed mercenaries, led by a Belgian named Christian Taverniers. Taverniers told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir on Monday that his group had "not yet fired a single shot," despite Kinshasa's claims that it had retaken the town of Walikale before the weekend. Activity on the current front, some 500 km of dense jungle between Kinshasa and the rebel-held territory to the east, remains mostly a mystery to journalists, who have had to depend on dubious reports from the Zairian government...
DIED. LUDWIG FREIHERR VON HAMMERSTEIN-EQUORD, 76, anti-Nazi conspirator; in Berlin. Part of the ill-fated July 1944 attempt by German officers to kill Hitler and end World War II, Hammerstein-Equord helped seize army headquarters. When it was retaken by SS troops, he escaped and hid until the defeat of the Third Reich...
Nearly 200,000 Serb refugees streamed out of the Krajina region in Croatia after the territory was retaken from the Serbs by Croatian forces. As joyous Croats celebrated, bitter Serbs denounced Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whom they faulted for not coming to their aid. Yugoslav officials, struggling to cope with the huge influx of refugees, announced plans to send thousands of them to Kosovo, a region that is 90% ethnic Albanian and that many fear will be the next Balkan powder...
...course of two weeks, these new tactics have served the Bosnian government well: for the first time in 31 months of war, they are poking through the overextended lines of the Bosnian Serb army. Government forces have retaken 60 sq. mi. of territory from the Serbs near Bihac in the north, made significant gains around strategic Mount Igman overlooking the capital of Sarajevo and recaptured the town of Kupres and perhaps an additional 40 sq. mi. in central Bosnia...