Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students recovered quickly from the illness,which was fround to be a norwalk virus thatprobably spread through the Union's salad...
...then the Bosnian guns opened up. Beginning Thursday morning, Bosnian artillery, machine-gun and infantry attacks raked rebel Serb positions 10 to 12 miles north of Sarajevo, and fighting spread to the west and southwest. Inside the city, government units pressed out toward the heights on which Serb heavy artillery, mortars and armored vehicles encircle the capital. The Serbs responded by blasting government strongpoints below and lobbed shells into civilian areas, hitting a hospital...
...shows in the six months since Moscow invaded the breakaway region of Chechnya that most Russians have grown complacent, believing the horrors of the Chechen war to be far removed from their daily lives. Few, in fact, paid serious attention to repeated threats by rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev to spread the conflict beyond Chechnya's borders. Then last week the Chechens finally made good on that vengeful promise. Suddenly the horrible images on TV were coming not from Chechnya but from a city in Russia itself. By week's end the entire nation was in shock, as hundreds, perhaps thousands...
...Chechen terror team issued a chilling ultimatum to the Russians: either begin the immediate withdrawal of troops from Chechnya or face a bloodbath. As government forces kept a tense vigil outside the hospital, stories quickly spread that to discourage rescue attempts the terrorists had mined the building and splashed gasoline on the hostages-numbering by some estimates close to 2,000. Ratcheting up the war of nerves, Shamil Basayev, a top rebel commander and leader of the operation, told journalists at a hastily improvised press conference: "It does not matter to us when we die. If necessary, we will shoot...
...deterrent to future aggressors. But there is no immediate, major U.S. national interest at stake to justify such a vast military effort. If that is the considered U.S. view, we should quit our hand wringing and stop trying quarter measures. This calculation could change if the fighting were to spread and involve NATO allies...