Word: three-hour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...policy toward Jalani. They say he might have set up illegal roadblocks to extort money from travelers, as many local commanders do, but they don't regard him as a terrorist. Later, local security officials said, U.S. forces were surprised when orders came to target Jalani. During the three-hour air and ground assault, the wall of a house collapsed on the eight victims. U.S. spokesmen said the damage was caused by secondary explosions from the hidden arsenal. But villagers told TIME that a U.S. bomb hit the wrong house, 50 meters from the militant's. And one villager said...
...History Channel's ambitious, three-hour JFK: A Presidency Revealed (Nov. 16, 8 p.m. E.T.) reminds us, the morbidness is somehow appropriate. Throughout his presidency, J.F.K. was haunted by premature death: the death of his infant son Patrick, the threat of his own death from his many secret ailments and the possible death of millions from a nuclear war he believed was ever more likely. "The most important thing about John Kennedy," his biographer Richard Reeves says, "is that he thought he was going to die young, and he could not wait his turn." Behind J.F.K.'s Eros--the skirt...
...Government graduate Yang Jianli has been imprisoned in China for a year and a half, including seven months in an eight-by-eight-foot cell and fourteen months without being charged nor allowed contact with the outside world. Two and a half months ago, Yang was granted a three-hour closed trial for espionage against the Chinese government. The trial’s verdict, however, was deferred until the end of November—to allow prosecutors to gather further evidence. Meanwhile, nothing has been demonstrated against Yang beyond his possession of fake papers and his propensity to lionize democracy...
...Government graduate Yang Jianli has been imprisoned in China for a year and a half, including seven months in an eight-by-eight-foot cell and fourteen months without being charged nor allowed contact with the outside world. Two and a half months ago, Yang was granted a three-hour closed trial for espionage against the Chinese government. The trial’s verdict, however, was deferred until the end of November—to allow prosecutors to gather further evidence. Meanwhile, nothing has been demonstrated against Yang beyond his possession of fake papers and his propensity to lionize democracy...
Jianli was tried in a Beijing Court on Aug. 4, but the three-hour hearing was closed to the public. He was charged with espionage and illegally entering China, and could face up to a life sentence...