Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wearing black buttons with a bull's eye and the word "Target," and waving signs like, "This is not a Nintendo game" and "CNN-tell the truth," about 100 people gathered in the third such vigil since the bombings began in Kosovo...
Bovan said the target symbol has great significance...
...presenting that we're all a target," Bovan added. "Eleven million people in Yugoslavia. Who knows how many next...
...meantime, our bombs have already killed a number of Serbian civilians. Just last week a NATO bomb fell short of its target, destroying two residential areas. Though NATO officials have labeled it an "accident of war," the fact remains that at least seven people were reported killed and nearly 50 wounded. Despite our idealism, the reality is that this war's dire consequences have affected the innocent, both Serbian and Albanian...
While Milosevic moved fast to stay ahead of the impact of the air strikes, NATO was plagued by bad luck. Only about half the bombing sorties actually dropped ordnance on targets. Some planes were socked in by bad weather; other pilots couldn't eyeball their prey--NATO rules required visual identification of a target to prevent civilian casualties--through the thick cloud cover, and returned to base with bomb bays still loaded. "Everybody is surprised," says a White House aide, "that we're not as far along as we wanted...