Word: stash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failure of an Iraqi air force coup to overthrow Saddam; at the opposite end is the possibility that Saddam has swung a deal to have Iran keep them safe for a while, then return them to him later in the war. The prevailing idea is that Saddam intends to stash them away for use by a postwar Iraqi regime that he thinks he will still head. This is backed up by repeated Iranian assurances that both planes and pilots will be interned until the end of the war. That would be fine with the U.S. As long as the planes...
...however, that Iraq has tried to convert the core into an explosive device. When Iraq purchased the uranium from France in 1975, Baghdad agreed to place it under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a Vienna-based nonproliferation watchdog group. IAEA inspectors perform tests on Iraq's stash twice yearly. Last week the agency certified that the latest round, conducted from Nov. 19 to 22, showed "no change" in either the amount or the purity of the uranium...
...residence of Bishop H.H. Brookins, a powerful leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; even at Barry's home, where the mayor cooked up a batch of crack cocaine in the kitchen. On the first such occasion, Moore said, the couple visited an apartment where Barry pulled a stash of powder cocaine from under the corner of a rug. Once, Moore said, after she and Barry got high in her mother's basement, the mayor went upstairs and gave advice to Moore's mother on how to help her son with his drug addiction...
...biggest crack-vial factory ever discovered. Only two months earlier, Customs agents had found several warehouses in New York City linked to Teng and his cronies that were stocked with some $28 million worth of paraphernalia, much of it hauled there from Seattle and Los Angeles. The stash was so vast -- 107 million vials, 1.9 million crack pipes, 178 million polyethylene bags for heroin -- that 25 Customs agents took three days just to count and load the items into eleven 50-ft.-long tractor trailers. "That was more paraphernalia than we'd ever even conceived of running into," says Richard...
...back up Billie Holliday or Josephine Baker at night, then go to high school during the day. By 17, he had himself a heroin habit. He received a stern lecture on the evils of using hard drugs from the Yardbird, who undercut his position by promptly sampling Morgan's stash. "Like it or no," Morgan says, "what he was saying was not nearly as loud as what he was doing...