Word: seizinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In town, the lingering embarrassment over seizing the world's attention on account of such gruesome events has faded. "The whole world knows where Waco is now," says restaurateur Sam Citrano. "We're going to put it to positive advantage."
The effects of Deng's economic revolution are astounding. In Mao's time, leveling was the rule, and everyone aimed at a drab, fanatical egalitarianism. The nation dressed in rumpled blue tunics that made it difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed...
Washington -- U.N. forces are debating what to do about the huge arms caches maintained by all the major clan leaders in Gaalkacyo, a city more than 300 miles north of Mogadishu. In the wake of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's facing down the U.N. and the U.S., other clan heads...
The idea of an interim presidency, however, is hardly far-fetched. Since seizing power in 1991, Cedras and the two other members of Haiti's reigning troika -- Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the police chief, and army chief of staff Philippe Biamby -- have tried repeatedly to set such a scheme...
Attempts at seizing property usually do not end in deaths. However, the weak probable cause standard allows for numerous other injustices. For example, agents have seized homes because of crimes committed by previous owners. Because the government fanatically seizes every property that qualifies regardless of the owner's innocence, families...