Word: threatened
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cold war obsession with Nicaragua, which embroiled the U.S. in a bloody guerrilla campaign and nearly doomed the Reagan presidency. Although Nicaragua, a nation of 5.5 million, is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, the prospect of an Ortega restoration prompted the Bush Administration to threaten to cut off more than $200 million in total aid to the country and moved cold warriors like former U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to fly to Managua to campaign against him. The U.S. is concerned that Ortega will become another boisterously anti-American voice of Latin America...
...suggest that you take out your steel and sharpen your critical knives to carve out a more valuable test for your editorial cartoonists. They should be incisive and funny. Threaten to slice and dice them all you want when they?...
...Cardona, 32, is a military policeman from Fullerton, Calif., who served in 2003 and 2004 at Abu Ghraib as a dog handler. After pictures of Cardona using the animal to threaten Iraqis were made public, he was convicted in May of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault, the equivalent of a felony in the U.S. civilian justice system. The prosecution demanded prison time, but a military judge instead imposed a fine and reduction in rank. Though Cardona was not put behind bars, he was also required to serve 90 days of hard labor at Ft. Bragg...
...totally unproven. Allen campaign officials grabbed the man, knocked him to the ground and dragged him out of the event, leading Stark - who aides to Democratic challenger Jim Webb say has no affiliation with the campaign - to e-mail dozens of Washington reporters about the incident and threaten to sue Allen campaign officials...
...Shut Up! A curious case may mean that debt collectors can't threaten to sue their targets unless they really mean...