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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most beautiful and terrifying scenes of the movie, we see a cargo truck--loaded with oil? biological weapons? noxious chemicals?--shot to pieces by over-enthusiastic Iraqi National soldiers. Milk spills out of the metal hold of the truck among the people who need it so badly...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gulf, Anyone? | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

While waiting to cross the intersection of Mt. Auburn Street and JFK Street at 7 p.m., a Weston resident stepped off the curb and a white paneled truck drove close to him and knocked him to the ground. Upon questioning by the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), the driver accused the victim of breaking the mirror...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Like Runaway Bride. Not only wasn't it as good as Pretty Woman, it rivaled The Haunting for the I-want-my-money-back award of the summer. Even five screenwriters couldn't come up with a decent joke--the only good gag was so contrived that a FedEx truck had to appear out of nowhere for the damn thing to work. And poor Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. In Pretty Woman, they both clicked so perfectly--man meets hooker, man falls in love with hooker, hooker becomes princess. In Runaway Bride, it's more like schmuck meets ditz, shmuck...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and David Kornhaber, S | Title: I Know What You Saw This Summer | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...talk and speculation has reached fever pitch in Russia, amid the climate of panic generated by the recent apartment bombings. The authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Gears Up for a New Chechnya War | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...Macheteros. FALN was responsible for 130 bombings in New York and Chicago during the 1970s and early 1980s, which resulted in the deaths of six people and the wounding of others. The Macheteros are best known for the 1983 robbery of $7.1 million from an armored Wells Fargo truck in Hartford, Conn...

Author: By Kiara ALVAREZ Ferrer, | Title: Clemency a Matter of Human Rights | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

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