Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he gets angry. "I knew a day program wasn't going to work because he was doing drugs at night. Being here 24 hours a day, he can't hide," she said during a recent visit to the camp. "When he was home, I could not keep him safe." The Bacons, of course, made a similar calculation-and turned out to be tragically wrong...
...last rebel stronghold in Chechnya, scores of Chechen fighters drove into Russia and terrorized the quiet provincial town of Budyonnovsk, killing as many as 100 people and gathering some 2,000 hostages in the town's three-story hospital. The rebels' commander, Shamil Basayev, rejected an offer of safe passage and said that only a Russian pullback from the breakaway republic would save the hostages. Russian troops twice stormed the hospital on Saturday; but after both attempts had failed, the authorities resumed hard bargaining with the rebels...
...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright,i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoydim sum in one of the numerous Chineserestaurants...
...French for weeks have been demanding that the U.N. force be either beefed up or pulled out. Once the decision to reinforce was made, French officials said they were eager to use the new reaction force to open the road for supplies to Sarajevo, protect U.N.-designated "safe zones" and enforce freedom of movement on other roads as well. The peacekeepers have always had the right to use force if necessary, but as a French diplomat says, "up until now they have not had the means or equipment to do so. That's what the rapid-reaction force...
...rebels' safety as the Chechens departed in a bus convoy. The gunmen agreed to release the hostages after Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomydrin, in a series of dramatic televised telephone negotiations with rebel leader Shamil Basayev, agreed todeclare a ceasefire in Chechnya, resume peace talks and give the gunmen safe passage home. The normally reticent Chernomyrdin surprised many with his decisive action. The government had endured a firestorm of criticism overPresident Boris Yeltsin's decision to attend the G-7 meeting rather than stay to deal with the crisis. The just-released hostages were especially angered by Yeltsin's order...