Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least 14 dead. Gov. Pete Wilson expanded his request for federal disaster funding today, seeking to make 48 of 56 California counties eligible for government relief. The state has estimated $303 million in livestock and agricultural losses so far as a result of the floods. Forecasters are predicting another storm for the Northern California this weekend...
...according to those who know him well, either decided to run or decided when he will decide. Many politicos view a Powell run for the White House as a mirage because it rests on a popularity that is broad but untested. Right now he is still the Desert Storm demigod, but once he has to answer attack ads and identify programs to ax, his stature will surely deflate. Even assuming he could survive this inevitable erosion of esteem to retain the margin of victory in November 1996, it's not easy to chart any route that would...
Bottom line: make the game a school-wide happening. If we can get the school in a tizzy over the Harvard-Yale football game, surely we can stir a storm over a do-or-die hockey playoff at home...
...station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting for their martyrdom," says Nasrallah of his forces. Cross hairs are superimposed over footage of Israeli soldiers on patrol. Voices chant, "Resistance! Resistance! Resistance...
Leaders of the Algerian government tersely explained that the wholesale bloodletting last week was necessary. ``When the security forces found out [about the murder of the guards],'' said a government official, ``they had no choice but to storm the building.'' Afterward Algerian television showed footage of pistols and grenades allegedly seized from the prisoners, suggesting they may have had help from other prison officials...