Word: sprees
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...Iraqi soldiers are a force of truly desperate men--a thin line of conscripts, many of them drawn from Shi'ite and Kurdish communities that despise Saddam. Kuwaiti guards report that when Iraqi soldiers swarmed across the border 12 1/2 years ago and began a seven-month looting spree, the first stop for the occasionally barefoot Iraqis was not the luxury-car dealers but the food stores. And back then they were better looked after. Last year an Iraqi border guard fled to Kuwait and pleaded, "Take me anywhere. Do anything to me. Just don't send me back...
...autonomous government with its own police force, tax authority, and health and education ministries. The spectrum of opinion stretches from espanolistas who scorn autonomy to the estimated 200 active commandos of ETA (short for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Liberty), who vow to end their 35-year terror spree only when the region is independent. Egunkaria was the sole daily paper to publish exclusively in the ancient Basque language, and most Basques see its shutdown as an attack on their unique linguistic and cultural heritage. Tens of thousands turned out in San Sebastián to protest the paper...
...angry enough to kill me, but I have to try to ask them to forgive me." It isn't forgiveness that concerns Kigali resident Domitila Nyirakamanzi - it's fear of renewed violence, and anger that the government isn't helping victims like her. Nyirakamanzi, 56, lived through a killing spree in the first few days of the genocide. Her right hand is scarred with machete wounds; a bullet is still lodged there. When the Hutu came she tried to take refuge in the Khadafi mosque, believing it to be a sanctuary. But the killers were not a pious lot. "They...
...code orange level of terrorist alert announced by the U.S. government last Friday has prompted a nationwide shopping spree on supplies that might be useful in case of a biological or chemical attack...
...could parade satellite images the CIA has of large semitrailers crowned with oversize air vents that indicate the vehicles could house such labs. Also available are photos said to show dump trucks converted into missile launchers. And CIA analysts have drawn up a voluminous list of Saddam's shopping spree for hardware and raw ingredients that they assert are intended for weapons making...