Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst attack since the October 12 truce in Bosnia, one man was killed and at least 19 others wounded when a grenade exploded in a Sarajevo street. A NATO official said the grenade was launched from the Serb-held suburb of Grbavica. The grenade struck a streetcar and tore a foot-wide hole in its roof as it was traveling down the Sarajevo's main boulevard, dubbed Sniper Alley during the war. NATO officials, who Monday pledged to use significant force if necessary to enforce Bosnia's peace, had no imediate response beyond condemning the incident. Although the Bosnian Serb...
...field to general in the Pentagon, is land mines. Overall, experts think the former Yugoslavia has been sown with anywhere from 2 million to 6 million mines. The American sector is known to contain three big minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed near Dayton, Ohio...
...blindfolded, given some water--which he said had something in it that affected his vocal cords so that he could only whisper--and taken away by van with 15 or so other prisoners. "We had to get out, and the soldiers lined us up. We got scared and tore the blindfolds down. We were in a big field covered with dead bodies. Instantly, the soldiers opened machine-gun fire at us." Hodzic threw himself on the ground, and bodies toppled over him. Soldiers, he says, walked around finishing off the wounded, but did not notice...
WHEN A TRIUMPHANT LECH WALESA became President of Poland in 1990, European communism appeared to be finished for good. As police states dissolved, members by the millions tore up their party cards, and democratically elected parliaments in most of the newly free countries voted to bar communist parties from the political process...
...group received publicity after Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96-'97 tore down an AALARM poster in front of Robert K. Wasinger '94, then a member of AALARM's Presidential Council...