Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manuel Noriega could have been accomplished with less muscle and money. In 1988, he claims, he and some fellow Noriega opponents worked through the Israeli embassy in Washington to contact two former commandos of the Israeli Defense Forces. They concocted a plan that involved a 200-man special unit of the Ecuadoran army and would have cost approximately $3 million. The Rambo scheme was killed when the C.I.A. tipped off the Senate Intelligence Committee...
...secluded wood 55 miles east of Prague, smoking chimneys rise above the East Bohemian Chemical Enterprise. A large complex of ramshackle sheds and concrete buildings, the factory looks unprepossessing enough. But a "special production unit" is mixing batches of one of Czechoslovakia's most lethal exports: Semtex, the odorless, colorless plastic explosive of choice for terrorists the world over...
...long trip to Lyndon Baines Johnson General, a new brick public hospital that delivers 15,000 babies each year. Inside, its long halls reveal a modern-day baby factory. Low-birth-weight babies, smaller than Cabbage Patch dolls, crowd nurseries designed for big healthy babies. In the intensive-care unit, doctors and nurses handle about a thousand babies annually, twice as many infants as they should, according to the unit's medical director Dr. Joseph Garcia-Prats...
...wasteful and inhumane. And patients living within sight of death often find themselves more concerned with the quality of the life that remains than with its quantity. Once reconciled to the inevitable, they want to die with dignity, not tethered to a battery of machines in an intensive- care unit like a laboratory specimen under glass...
...bust business has attracted some unlikely saviors. Shortly before it declared bankruptcy last month, Drexel Burnham Lambert beefed up a unit that advised distressed companies. The move was viewed with cynicism by some on Wall Street since Drexel, through its junk-bond financing of buyouts, was a prime contributor to today's bankruptcy boom. Other improbable rescuers include First Boston, which advised Campeau to borrow more than $10 billion to buy Bloomingdale's, Jordan Marsh and seven other U.S. store chains. Some critics attack Wall Street firms for profiting from both the debt buildup of the '80s and the subsequent...