Word: tornado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops to the gulf, upping the total number of French servicemen in the region to 7,800. He was not alone in answering Bush's call for additional support: Britain dispatched 6,000 more soldiers, Canada will send a squadron of 12 CF-18 jets, and Italy pledged eight Tornado fighters and a frigate...
Just beyond the truck, a miniature desert tornado forms, funneling sand toward the cloudless sky and scattering garbage as it dances through the camp. "We are not poor people who can live in the desert,"says Mohammed Tahir, 30, who worked for 12 years in Kuwait in an Indian restaurant. "We had jobs and apartments and good lives." Tahir has been in no-man's-land for seven days. As frightened as he was by life in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, Tahir insists there is no comparison. He says, "I have come to a place that is even worse...
...Grade School in Plainfield, was swept away from a group of teachers seeking safety in the school and was killed. Nine residents of the town of Crest Hill died $ when they were sucked from their three-story apartment complex and hurled 40 ft. away into a cornfield. In the tornado's swath across Joliet and neighboring small towns, at least 27 people died and more than 90 others were injured. Damage wrought by gusts powerful enough to toss dumpsters into trees was placed at more than $100 million...
...enforce the United Nations trade embargo, Britain, Canada, France and Australia are adding destroyers and frigates to their naval patrols, though only the British moved quickly to send men and planes. Whitehall ordered Tornado fighter-bombers and a squadron of Jaguar ground-attack jets to the gulf, along with Rapier ground-to-air missiles. If Saddam intends to invade Saudi Arabia, he will probably have to do it before those forces are in place. The military planner's rule of thumb is that to be successful, attackers must outnumber defenders by 3 to 1. When the U.S. deployment is added...
...Riveted" might be a better term. Smith, 67, unleashed a media tornado, still howling across the headlines, when she broke the Trump divorce story two weeks ago. Her revelation was trumpeted in the column she has written for the New York Daily News for 14 years, which appears in more than 60 other U.S. papers. She quickly took sides, advising Ivana to "stop sobbing over Donald Juan." Such partisanship might be harshly judged in a report about German unification. But Smith -- and the rest of the scoop troop -- is to objective reporting what Hulk Hogan is to Olympic wrestling. Almost...