Word: stall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unconscious when he came to the aid of his screaming wife. (Sheppard died in 1970; his remains were exhumed for DNA samples in 1997 at his son's request.) But Sheppard?s son claims that the intruder was a very real window-washer, and calls the exhumation just another stall tactic by the prosecution. When poor Mrs. Sheppard is unearthed ? no date has yet been set ? what clues will her body yield? Not much, probably. She may help investigators clarify their picture of the crime scene, or indeed help keep Sam Sheppard?s son in a state of frustration...
...photograph. But this spring the monument to the past came into the news again when the man who had overseen the torture for four years, Kang Khek Ieu, generally known as Duch, was suddenly discovered, by foreign journalists, in a western Cambodian village. He was running a crushed-ice stall in the countryside and had certificates of baptism to prove his status as a born-again Christian. The man who oversaw the execution of at least 16,000 of his countrymen had papers from American churches testifying to his "personal leadership" and "team-building" skills...
...knew pretty quickly the game plan was going to be to stall recognition...
...resisting local government efforts to buy up their properties and flood them as part of the restoration. Surprisingly, the Miccosukees have sued in favor of the landowners: because most of the families have lived there legally for decades, the tribe fears that a battle to evict them will just stall the restoration. Last week local officials backed off, and environmentalists are fuming. "The tribe's stance boggles us," says a leading Miami activist. "You look at their big new casino out there, and you wonder if they're shills for developers...
...insists it?ll happen as soon as the Serbs hit the road. But even with international peacekeepers poised to enter the province and make it safe for returning refugees, the struggle for Kosovo may be far from over. "Experience tells us to expect Milosevic to do his utmost to stall, perhaps not withdrawing all of his forces and seeking loopholes in agreements to try and maintain whatever control he can over Kosovo," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He?ll try to create a situation where it?s hard for NATO to resume bombing and that President Clinton will simply...