Word: snipering
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...WORLD HAS SEEN IT ALL BEFORE: a cease-fire is signed, the guns fall silent, hopes rise. Then somewhere in Bosnia a sniper's bullet or a mortar round or a tank attack sheds blood, and war begins again. Countless times since the start of the wars of Yugoslavia in 1991, a truce has been declared. Each time it has collapsed. Last week U.S. diplomats tried again, negotiating a cessation of hostilities that could take effect as early as Tuesday. But in contrast to the many failures of the past, there is a chance this one could last, clearing...
...stations (with a starting time between 11 p.m. and midnight on most of them), combines interviews with sketch comedy. Miller, a former stand-up comic with a furrowed brow and frozen incredulous grin, has the mean challenge of competing against Leno and Letterman. But she is ready for the sniper fire. "I'm a complete unknown," says Miller, who is the daughter of William E. Miller, the conservative Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1964. "I'm a woman. If I made it, in a way it would be kind of a Cinderella story. Certainly we're going to need some...
Even if it is true that the killing of Vicki Weaver was accidental, for director of the FBI William Sessions admitted the sniper should never have fired in the first place. A Justice Department task force also found that the shot was unjustified...
...sniper, in an incredible dodge of responsibility, admitted he was firing at a fleeing fourteen-year-old, but had the audacity to suggest that Randall Weaver (who was also fleeing toward the cabin at the time), shot his own son in the back. Please, I may be naive, but I'm hardly that stupid...
Vicki Weaver was standing near the open door of the cabin, holding her infant son in her arms. A sniper's shot hit her artery and she died almost immediately. The FBI has claimed the sniper was actually aiming for Kevin Harris, who they say was standing behind Vicki Weaver with a gun in his hands. However, diagrams of the cabin shown to the Senate committee make that story improbable...