Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bosnian Serbs fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a French armored personnel carrier on U.N. peacekeeping duty outside Sarajevo, wounding a French soldier. In retaliation for that attack and three others by the Bosnian Serbs, three NATO jets destroyed a Bosnian Serb tank that had violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs...
Munro's sure touch with uncertainty guides her other stories as well. A small-town Ontario librarian feels betrayed when the World War I soldier she corresponds with comes home to marry another woman. Yet personal embarrassment is only a starting point in Carried Away. The story extends over many years and contains enough twists, including an accidental beheading, to lead the woman to see her life eventually as "a devouring muddle" full of "sudden holes and impromptu tricks and radiant vanishing consolations...
...people, in which skirmishes between the two opposing sides killed three people and injured at least 11. Amid gunfire, Aristide supporters struggled with pro-military "attaches," who were armed with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported at the demonstration site, near a pro-junta army headquarters, from which attaches had run terror campaigns under the military regime. Witnesses said Haitian troops seized a cage filled with doves and took it back to the militia headquarters, where a soldier bit the head...
American troops now control the peace in Haiti, after taking over key police precincts yesterday and the Parliament and City Hall in Port-au-Prince today in anticipation of pro-Aristide Haitian legislators' return. The first U.S. fatality also surfaced today when a patrol found an American soldier who had apparently killed himself in a mansion being prepared for Haitian dignitaries. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonnaded Parliament, where the lawmakers are expected to vote on an amnesty for the military junta -- a key part of the quickie deal between capo Lieut. General Raoul Cedras...
...might see a virtual reality and interactive television show that will allow us to crouch down under a tenement with Dan Rather and watch an amazing shot of a soldier being hit by a , again and again. Or feel the heat of a airborne missile as it screams down and blows up a pier a few feet away. The possibilities for exploitation are endless...