Word: spate
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...Aristide lawmakers landed in Haiti on a U.S. chartered jetliner, ending their three-year exile with a trip straight to the Parliament building in Port-au-Prince. This afternoon, they convened with other members of the Assembly to debate and vote on a spate of bills to prepare for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return. At the top of their list: an Aristide-backed proposal to grant amnesty to Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and junta supporters. TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was there, said hundreds of jubilant Haitians surrounded the building, chanting "Handcuff Cedras!" as U.S. troops stood...
...kill themselves as were members of the general population. Though every case is different, the experts do see some patterns: male officers are far more likely to kill themselves than female ones, alcohol often plays some role, and corruption scandals within the department are usually followed by a spate of suicides...
...witness. Reynolds, who's been under investigation since June, denies all -- and says his now-18-year-old accuser's a lesbian who once practiced Satan worship. The ride can only get wilder, says TIME Chicago reporter Julie Grace, who notes Reynolds is also being chased for a spate of alleged financial crimes by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Illinois Attorney General and the Federal Election Commission. "Political insiders think there's going to be a whole lot more fallout -- that it's just going to get ridiculous," Grace says...
...Stalinist era. As the eminent historian Robert Conquest says in his introduction to Sudoplatov's book: "Individual reminiscences must, indeed, be treated critically -- but so must most documents. Both are simply historical evidence, none of which is perfect, and none of which is complete. Even in the spate of documentation now emerging in Russia, Sudoplatov's evidence is vastly informative in major but (as yet, at least) undocumented areas." Informative -- and debatable, as the reaction to his attack on the reputations of America's pioneer bomb builders clearly shows...
Many of the drivers on the Grand Prix circuit blamed a spate of crashes this season on an effort by the International Federation of Automobiles (FIA), Formula One's Paris-based governing body, to sharpen competition by banning the use of high-tech devices thought to give the richer racing teams an unfair advantage. In doing so, the drivers charged, the federation had made the sport far more dangerous. Senna himself had expressed misgivings even before the start of the season. "It's a great error to remove the electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast...