Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wood script, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (based on Rudolph Grey's excellent 1992 biography, Nightmare of Terror), posits Wood as a classic American optimist, a Capraesque hero with little to be optimistic about, since he was also a classic American loser. That's a fine start, but the film then marches in staid chronological order: Ed made this bad film, then this one, then a third. It focuses on the director's curious cast of hangers-on (played here by Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie and others). They were all, as Wood's psychic sidekick Criswell intones...
Worse by far was the terror and panic inside the ship, as passengers fled their cabins and jammed into corridors and stairways. "A woman had broken her legs and begged others to give her a life jacket," said Kent Harstedt, a Swedish passenger, "but it was the law of the jungle." Andrus Maidre, a 19- year-old Estonian passenger, said the old and the very young had little chance. "Some old people had already given up hope and were just sitting there crying," he said. "I stepped over children who were wailing and holding onto the railing." Very...
...stepping down five days before the U.S.-imposeddeadline, but screams from hundreds of pro-democracy Haitians drowned out hisfarewell speech from a podium at army headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince."I have decided to leave our country so my presence will not be a motive tocreate terror," he explained. He left with a salute, turning the army over tohis No. 2, Maj. Gen. Jean-Claude Duperval, who is expected to be replacedquickly by someone with better pro-democracy credentials. Biamby, who made nopublic appearance, tendered his letter of resignation last week and is rumoredto be departing the island with...
...Amid gunfire, Aristide supporters struggled with pro-military "attaches," who were armed with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported at the demonstration site, near a pro-junta army headquarters, from which attaches had run terror campaigns under the military regime. Witnesses said Haitian troops seized a cage filled with doves and took it back to the militia headquarters, where a soldier bit the head off one of the birds. Nearby about 2,000 Haitians looted a warehouse belonging to Port-au-Prince police...
REAGAN: "((Grenada)) was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time...