Word: sabers
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...Wellesley tournament contained five separate events. The women competed in both foil and epee fencing, and the men participated in foil, epee and saber fencing...
...dueling weapon, and the target is anywhere on the body. Ancient tradition dictated that the fight would end upon first blood. Foil fencing has a more limited target since it is based on a training weapon, and the target zone is the torso. A derivative of the cavalry sword, saber fencing is a cutting and thrusting weapon, and the target is anywhere above the waist...
...mandate expires. The Serbs in eastern Slavonia profess to be unintimidated. "Let him come," says Slobodan Antonic, a commander of the main Serb military force there. "We have laid 250,000 mines, dug 62 miles of new trenches and built more than 100 new bunkers." Despite Tudjman's "crude saber-rattling threats," as one U.S. State Department document has called them, mediators detect a willingness to reach an agreement that would install international monitors for two years before the Croats regain control...
...Rubin's warning Tuesday had scuttled Republican plans to tie the emergency debt-limit increase to their dramatic budget cuts. Who's right? Says TIME's Karen Tumulty: "The people who have the most to lose from this -- the markets -- don't seem to be worried by all this saber-rattling...
...party. Patten has been vilified in the Chinese press, while big business tugs at his sleeve, urging him to take it easy (The Economist called the 1994 democracy debates "a distraction" from more important matters, such as building a new airport.) More conservative Hong Kong residents worry that democratic saber-rattling invites a harsher crackdown in '97 and feel the best strategy may be to cuddle up to the new motherland...