Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each day passed, the designation of Gorazde as a U.N.-sanctioned "safe area" seemed increasingly like a cruel joke. Two rounds of NATO air strikes early in the week had done little to ease the Serbs' tightening vise around the besieged Muslim enclave on the Drina River. By Friday, Serb forces had moved artillery and armored vehicles into the surrounding hills and pounded away at the city of 65,000 civilians with howitzers, mortars and tank cannons. On Saturday afternoon, as Bosnian radio reported fretfully that tanks were rolling through Gorazde and firing into residential areas, NATO dispatched six planes...
...choppers were not Hinds but U.S. Black Hawks. On board were 21 allied military and civilian officials, including 15 Americans and five Kurds; all of them perished. They had been on their way to meet with Kurdish leaders in the northern Iraq town of Salahuddin, part of the safe haven created for the Kurds after the Gulf War. The crews of all five aircraft in the tragedy were slated to attend a rehearsal one day earlier in which they had reviewed flight routes, radio frequencies and the timing of Thursday's mission. "There were human errors, probably, and there might...
...seven-seat election) any fringe dweller who can enthrall 12% of the voters -- the David Dukes as well as the Bobby Agees. Even without kooks, they fear it will create mosaic governments paralyzed by factionalism. Others predict that once minority members realize cumulative systems provide an automatic "safe seat," numerous candidates will split the vote, and the seat will disappear. Exactly that happened last year in Centre, a small town about 100 miles away, which also tried cumulativism: a black made the city council in 1988, but four years later he had black competition, and the council reverted to lily...
...Rwandan friends left behind. Theresa Scimeni, an American teacher at the International School in Kigali, recalled the horror before she and her husband and two young daughters were rescued. "We heard each of the houses near us attacked in turn. There would be firing, screams, then silence," she said, safe in Nairobi. "Then a few minutes later the men would move to the next house, and it would start all over again -- and again...
...embattled Bosnian city of Gorazde, once designated a "safe area" by the U.N., was close to collapse after heavy attack from Bosnian Serb forces when U.N. officials announced that a cease-fire was likely that would leave the Serbs with most of the land seized in their recent offensive. On Saturday a British Sea Harrier jet, flying under nato command, was shot down as it searched for a Serb target. Earlier in the week, U.S. aircraft bombed Serb positions and imposed a momentary quiet on the area. By the weekend, however, Serb forces were reportedly two miles from Gorazde...