Word: seizinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During preparations for Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return, customs officials in Miami were seizing 100-kilo loads of cocaine -- instead of the typical 5-to- 50-kilo shipments -- off Haitian freighters. "We surmise the traffickers were trying to get it out in case Aristide did come back into power and...
The two-week standoff between President Boris Yeltsin and former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, barricaded in the Parliament Building, finally flared into violence. Moscow turned into an open-air shooting range for Rutskoi's ragtag army of Communists, neo-Nazis and just plain hooligans dedicated to restoring the old Soviet...
Within 24 hours, Comandante 31 and his band of ex-Sandinista officials responded by storming the Managua headquarters of the conservative National Opposition Union (U.N.O.). Seizing 34 people including Vice President Virgilio Godoy Reyes, they demanded the release of the El Zungano hostages and U.S. war reparations of $17 billion...
All right, all right -- it wasn't that insensitive! It was simply a matter of seizing seasonal imagery to make an obvious point: some of us seem to be letting ourselves go . . . just a touch, say . . . perhaps an almost imperceptible touch. No, that's bending backwards not to offend. Put...
Throughout the 1980s, Hizballah had a dark reputation; it was notorious for seizing Western hostages, setting off car bombs and nurturing groups like Islamic Jihad, which blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. But it sought Arab approval by deploying its thousands of fighters to harass Israeli troops occupying...