Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday, Laverne Ward, 24, rang up his old girlfriend Deborah Evans, 28. Evans, a welfare mother with three children and another on the way, had moved away from Hanover Park, a drug-infested Chicago suburb frequented by Ward, to try to rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans...
...brother Joshua, 8. Police later learned that Joshua reached out for help, telling an adult about the murders and charging that Ward had been involved. His captors then allegedly tried poisoning and strangling Joshua before stabbing him to death. Police found his body in an alley in the suburb of Maywood...
...ghastly civil war has become: army special forces stormed an apartment in Tizi-Ouzu, 50 miles east of the capital, killing seven guerrillas, including the regional leader of the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.). Two French nuns were gunned down, one fatally, as they left their home in an Algiers suburb to attend Mass, bringing the number of foreigners murdered in Algeria by Islamists to 94 in the past two years. A car bomb outside a voting station south of Algiers killed five people. Three activists from different political parties were assassinated. Then, on the eve of the election, the government...
...Minister. In so doing, he found himself competing against a man with whom he would lock horns for the rest of his career. Although Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin never had significant ideological or political differences (and even lived within two blocks of each other in a Tel Aviv suburb), the hostility between them ran so deep that at times they seemed almost to have difficulty pronouncing each other's name. During this period, they emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders; their rivalry would color the nation's politics for the next two decades...
...target zone, hailed it as a "fantastic decision." The French government, on the other hand, congratulated the winners and applauded the idea of disarmament--but insisted that its tests would continue to ensure a worldwide "security climate." Rotblat, reached by the Nobel committee at his home in the London suburb of Cricklewood, was beaming. "When I woke up this morning," the professor emeritus at the University of London told reporters, "I didn't expect to become such a celebrity...