Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storm is brewing at the U.N. over just how many secret deals Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN may have made in Baghdad in order to defuse the crisis with Iraq. While Annan has insisted that he has no intention of weakening the U.N. Special Commission, the group that is tracking down SADDAM HUSSEIN's weapons, two developments this week have called UNSCOM's future effectiveness into question. First, Annan stationed a special U.N. representative in Baghdad. That will provide the Iraqis with an alternate channel of communications that may circumvent UNSCOM. Second, Annan is seriously considering a Russian proposal that...
This is clearly not the right attitude. If there really was something to fight for, it must be college students who speak out and storm University Hall. The reason is clear: we are the next generation, the people who will inherit the policies and practices of today's bureaucrats; we must vocalize our disapproval because no one will do it for us. History teaches us that this is true. When the Vietnam War threatened their lives, students burned draft cards; when blacks were fighting for their civil rights, students marched on Washington. And activism has not only been anti-establishment...
...ground soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, the shortest road home from Saudi Arabia cuts through Kuwait. But the prospect of traveling along it fills the grunts with dread...
...impact of these treacherous weather patterns we've had since October," says Craig Fugate, the bureau chief for preparedness and response for the Florida Division of Emergency Management. "You generally don't see the whole state under this deluge of rainfall. We're not even cleaned up after one storm before we're looking at the strong possibility of another one coming. We're hoping this is not foreshadowing what we're going to see in March and April...
Alan M. Gerlach Jr. `71, president of the Harvard Club of Central Florida based in Kissimmee, said in an interview yesterday that the 110 Harvard alumni he knew in the region had emerged from the storm unscathed...