Word: swat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their own bodily fluids. Frustrated officials with the Indian Health Service, the University of New Mexico and the state's health department put in a call to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In a matter of days, highly trained specialists--essentially a public-health swat team from the premier U.S. government lab's Epidemic Intelligence Service--were on the scene. Within two weeks, their meticulous detective work had identified the deadly microbe: a lethal variant of a germ known as hantavirus, carried by rodents but never known to be deadly in humans. Armed with that knowledge...
...oath, he was wearing a body wire. Over the next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after the group began to discuss "urban warfare" and "race riots and martial law," the ATF moved...
While extraterrestrials remain rumors, some sci-fi is less and less fi. Robots used to be staples of futuristic novels, but now they are virtually essential to production lines, scientific research, nuclear safety and antiterrorist swat teams. Below, with their costs, are a few recent models of modern commercial robots...
...scene last week was a nightmare come to life. Four masked terrorists held 25 passengers hostage on Atlanta's MARTA subway system. SWAT teams stormed in, killing all but one terrorist--but not before the captors murdered four hostages...
...Hampshire exclaiming, "Real voters! Real people!," dozens of journalists instantly surrounded him as he reached for the hand of a single terrified citizen. Viewed from across the street, it looked as if Buchanan had suddenly gone berserk, seized a hostage and was being followed by a SWAT team...