Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charter companies. "Everybody here is kind of frantic," reports TIME's Lorelei Albanese in San Juan. "Bottled water is almost completely sold out, and batteries and other supplies are being snapped up as soon as they are put on the shelves." Albanese says the ferocity of the storm has reminded many Puerto Ricans of Hurricane Hugo, which caused more than $1 billion in damage to the commonwealth in 1989. "People remember Hugo, and they're terrified it's going to be worse this time...
...locations, making it difficult for an attacker to destroy them all. And psy-warriors must compete with a blizzard of electronic media outlets such as commercial television networks, CNN and the Internet for the attention. Cutting off Saddam's telephones and electrical power didn't topple him during Desert Storm...
...probing U.S. computers. A top Justice Department computer-security expert says five of the last seven identified intruders into the Pentagon's mainframes were foreigners. Retired Air Force Colonel Alan D. Campen, author of The First Information War, a 1992 book that described information technologies used during Desert Storm, says he got "requests for copies of the book from embassies all over the world." The Chinese army uses it in a course it teaches on infowarfare...
...first victim of last week's political storm was Defense Minister Fernando Botero Zea, 39, who resigned amid accusations that he had received almost $6 million in contributions from the Cali cartel when he was Samper's campaign manager. Botero's accuser was Santiago Medina, campaign treasurer, who was arrested two weeks ago after a police raid turned up a check made out to him by a cartel front company...
...hurricane starts the scavengers crawling. Edie Marsh, sexy in her shoplifted wardrobe, has spent several months trolling for Kennedys, hoping to extract a little ladylike blackmail. But the Kennedy season is just about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys...