Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the Persian Gulf War, five years ago. New procedures will include beefing up of airport security personnel, searches of unattended cars at airports, closer surveillance of baggage areas and heightened warnings to passengers not to carry anything aboard an aircraft for someone they do not know. During Desert Storm, more stringent precautions were taken...
...sentence in the Susan Smith case, rain began to fall. And as Smith stood before the judge to learn she had been spared the death penalty, thunder rumbled. Courtroom spectators moved their gaze from defendant to windows and back again. Then, as swiftly as it had begun, the storm was over. A few minutes later, when Smith was led back to prison, the sun burst forth...
...guide, this new round of scrutiny will once again blow the agency into a period of angst and self-doubt. "We've always been defensive," says Charlotte ATF agent in charge Paul Lyon. "We have always been susceptible to light breezes--it doesn't even take a full storm." But this week the agency is bracing itself once again for gale-force winds that may well threaten its survival...
...most hated federal agency in America today, surpassing even the IRS in its notoriety. Gun-rights advocates have demonized the agency as a dark legion of storm troopers who trample the rights of ordinary citizens. Critics have gone so far as to compare its treatment of gun owners to Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. In a best-selling book published last year, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association described ATF's disastrous raid at Waco, which began the 51-day siege that ended in conflagration, as "reminiscent of the standoff at the Warsaw ghetto." Opposition...
After more than a week of internal debate and White House leaks, President Clinton has decided to announce his plan to establish full diplomatic relations with Vietnam at a Rose Garden ceremony Tuesday. Storm coulds are already gathering, at least among Republican presidential candidates. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas have criticized Clinton for moving toward normalization; Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), who may soon withdraw from the race, on Sunday called Clinton a "triple draft dodger" and told NBC's "Meet the Press" that establishing diplomatic ties was "going to deny him a second...