Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vincent was a good man who was ousted because his actions threatened to curtail some of the owners' profits, regardless of whether those actions were good for baseball...
...government in Haiti, the Clinton Administration declared an American-led invasion all but certain. Four Caribbean countries -- Barbados, Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago -- have promised to contribute a grand total of 266 support troops to a "multi-national" invasion force. Earlier in the week, the Rev. Jean-Marie Vincent, a prominent supporter of the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, was assassinated, the first priest killed since the military took over...
...invasion backup force--arrived in Puerto Rico for two weeks of training with hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces troops. The 17 countries, some announced previously, are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahama Islands, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Guyana, Israel, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Panama, St. Vincent, Trinidad and the United Kingdom...
...teeth. Later, Carlos would say his gun had jammed. "I usually fire three times around the nose. But only one bullet went off." He also botched his second mission, aiming poorly as he tossed hand grenades into an Israeli bank. "This is not a very efficient terrorist," says Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism program. "He was never as good as his reputation...
...shooting death of a leading Haitian dissident last night jolted Haiti back to the forefront of U.S. and international agendas. The Rev. Jean-Marie Vincent -- a close friend of Jean-Bertrand Aristide who threw his body in front of machete-wielding attackers in 1989 to protect the now exiled president -- was shot and killed by gunmen suspected of being part of the military government. There was no indication why Vincent was slain. He was a peasant-rights movement leader, but he had made no political appearances since Aristide's 1991 ouster. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mike McCurry denounced...