Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ARMY. Standing at 18 combat divisions at the time of Desert Storm, the Army could be brought down to 10 active and five reserve divisions, totaling 797,000 troops. Its divisions, fully equipped with the world's finest tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, are already superior to any other land force. Maintaining the army at these lower levels would cost $45 billion a year, against the present $71 billion...
...Ethnic cleansing," it appears, plagues not just the Balkans but the Baltic as well. In a hail of rocks and Molotov cocktails, skinheads and neo-Nazis in the eastern German port of Rostock tried to storm an apartment block housing 200 asylum-seeking Romanian Gypsies, beginning an ugly battle that would last all week. After officials moved the Gypsies, the hooligans trapped 100 Vietnamese guest workers in a neighboring building and set it ablaze. By luck alone, none of the inhabitants was seriously hurt...
...Andrew could hardly have been more ill-timed. Just as the President had begun to emphasize what he promised would be a bold approach to domestic policy in a second term, the hurricane threw him on the defensive. Instead of showcasing Bush's strengths as a crisis manager, the storm offered the Democrats an opening to charge that he was, once again, slow to respond to problems at home. Fairly or not, Bush was, by week's end, deflecting questions about his performance. "There's no point," he said, "getting into blame and this who-shot-John thing that...
Despite hard times, Americans have been rushing money and supplies to the damaged areas. But in the long run, pluck and perseverance will no doubt prove to be the most trustworthy ally for Andrew's survivors. Mitch and Penny Burke, newly wed, emerged from a closet after the storm ripped through their comfortable home in southern Dade County to find they had lost almost everything -- dining-room furniture, bed, clothes, wedding gifts. The damage was so bad that their entire neighborhood may have to be razed. "We've got new wallpaper, but no walls," said Penny with resolute humor...
...books, the six-year-old began browsing through a children's picture book called Daddy's Roommate, a book by Michael Willhoite written in the voice of a young boy whose parents divorce and whose father subsequently sets up housekeeping with his gay lover. The incident has created a storm and divided Goldsboro. The Grants call the book "antifamily" and claim among other things that it trivializes divorce and implicitly condones a homosexual life-style. What so upsets the Grants and others, including the editorial writer for Goldsboro's News-Argus, is that the mother in the book explains...