Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan to divide Somalia into four sectors aims to wrest control of the country from brigands in lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
...nuclear attack. Posted outside the blast range of an atomic assault on Washington, they were to swoop down onto the White House lawn when an attack seemed imminent and spirit the President away to one of several hollowed-out mountain sites or to the heavily reinforced communications ship, the U.S.S. Northampton, off the Atlantic Coast...
...Just as U.S. Navy officials thought they had swamped the embarrassing Tailhook affair with a wave of new ship announcements and a major reorganization plan, the scandal bobbed right back to the surface. Investigators in San Diego discovered a cache of several rolls of film that showed the manhandling of a 17-year-old girl who was partly disrobed by a corridorful of rowdy Navy and Marine aviators at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The snapshots detail an episode in which the hopelessly inebriated teenager staggers down the hall while drunken officers tear...
...midterm elections by demonizing Saddam as "worse than Hitler," and has sought to take advantage of the latest confrontation. During the Agriculture Ministry dispute, the White House released photos of midnight strategy sessions held by the President and his advisers, thus reminding voters whose steady hand steers the ship of state...
...while private institutions have beenrunning "a pretty tight ship for the past decade,"they are generally better off then publiccolleges and universities, according to ACEspokesperson David R. Merkowitz...