Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a year from now, the crowd is instantly on its feet as his presence is announced and he bounds down to the podium. He speaks for 50 minutes, without notes, taking the crowd through the cold war, through Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Operation Desert Storm and the occupation of Haiti. Powell, 58, tells moving tales of his upbringing in Harlem and the South Bronx, of sitting in the Hall of St. Catherine in the Kremlin, where he heard Gorbachev declare that the cold war was over. And when Powell has delivered his set speech...
There are already several "Draft Powell" organizations in the field, operating without his blessing or his opposition. But their level of intensity does not put one in mind of Desert Storm. There are two committees registered with the Federal Election Commission, one based in California and one in suburban Washington. Andrew DiMarco, a California lawyer, calls his outfit the Draft Committee for Colin Powell's Army. So far he's collected 13,400 signatures urging Powell to run, but his drive is going into low gear until Powell gives some clearer sign of his intentions. The other committee...
...dawn on Saturday, government forces stormed the hospital compound. After a four-hour fire fight, the troops seized the ground floor of the main building but encountered heavy resistance from the terrorists, who held most of the hostages on the top floors. Women holding white sheets were pushed to the windows as targets. Both sides agreed to a cease-fire, and 227 hostages were freed; but shooting resumed again after five hours. When a second Russian attempt to storm the hospital failed, an uneasy stalemate settled in. Chernomyrdin moved to break the deadlock by calling rebel leader Basayev directly...
...Sesame Street, but as a symbol of quality children's television, Snuffy is trying to hold the fort while Rita Repulsa, Newt Gingrich, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Armani-clad copywriters from Madison Avenue, Rupert Murdoch, professional wrestlers, professional lobbyists and Nickelodeon emcees armed with green gook storm the walls...
...spent two decades in epic ostentation and arrogance-on-the-run, buying influence in Costa Rica, contemplating the establishment of a sovereign state in Antigua, toying with journalists, offering hints of revelatory interviews and then, in one case, dancing around a swimming pool with egotistical delight as a lightning storm lit up the Cuban sky, leaving the would-be questioner dangling...