Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAIROBI: Investigators probing the U.S. embassy blast which killed 254 people last week will have to rely more on the painstaking search for forensic evidence than on "eyewitness" accounts. TIME reporter Clive Mutiso explains: "I arrived at the scene within moments of the blast and there was nothing there but death and destruction -- it's unlikely that any witnesses survived that bomb. But when I went back 90 minutes later, there were suddenly loads of 'eyewitnesses' -- none of them injured -- all telling anyone who'd listen exactly what happened...
...footage on the cable news channels tomorrow will be of Bill and Hillary Clinton at Andrews Air Force Base during a memorial service for the 12 Americans killed in bombings at two embassies in Africa. Off-camera, the president is scheduled to meet to discuss how the search for the bombers is progressing...
...released had been very badly treated during their captivity. Mladic had reportedly told them, "You are my prisoners, and you will be treated as criminals." Clinton too had been concerned for the pilots. According to a senior French military official, there were two secret Franco-American combat search-and-rescue missions to recover them, but the forces were beaten back in fire fights with Mladic's troops, and several Americans were wounded...
...reported that the co-founders of the Yahoo! search engine picked the name out of the dictionary [THE INTERNET ECONOMY, July 20]. My dictionary defines yahoo as a race of brutes in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have all the vices of men. A secondary meaning: an uncouth or rowdy person. Are the company's founders proud of that appellation? ROBERT J. BYRNE St. Louis...
Herzegovians like to take the credit for that themselves, pointing to their defiant nature. At the Tvrdos monastery outside Trebinje, Bishop Atanasije Jevtic, head of the Herzegovina diocese, says NATO has disturbed archaeological work on the 4th century foundations of his abbey in search of Karadzic. "Can you imagine if we came to your church with tanks?" he says. "They can come and take me to the Hague, and I'd welcome it!" In the musty office of the Association of Gusle Players and Epic Poets in a downtown hotel, Mitar Djogo is similarly defiant. After playing a few notes...