Word: warns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...furor played straight into Lee's vigorous campaign to warn the world of what he sees as dire threats emanating from Beijing. He is convinced the leadership intends to control Hong Kong so tightly that all its current economic and political freedoms will disappear. While Tung was struggling to defend his unpopular proposals, Lee enjoyed a triumphant tour of the U.S., including a symbolically important chat with President Clinton. Lee's Democrats threatened to mount protest marches on hand-over night in deliberate violation of the proposed restrictions and tie up the courts in a skein of lawsuits if Tung...
...denied he had issued a shoot-to-kill order. "My only order," he told reporters, "was to rescue 72 hostages." That is almost the same thing, of course. Special-operations troops are trained to kill swiftly to keep terrorists from fulfilling their threats to massacre their hostages. Commandos usually warn hostages to lie down because they will be shooting at anyone standing up. When the special troops, wearing gas masks, burst into the thick smoke of the residence hallways last week, they had trouble distinguishing hostages from guerrillas. One hard-charging lieutenant shouted, "Anyone who moves gets shot!" He almost...
...Congressman Tony Hall, on a visit to North Korea, spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six- or seven-year-old, picking weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program director Catherine Bertini, faces "a major humanitarian disaster...
...woman who used to apply lipstick the way toddlers mash crayons was demurely turned out for the Oscars in a chiffon Versace gown. It was the most thorough transformation since Eliza Doolittle met Henry Higgins. If Courtney does become the next Audrey Hepburn, don't say we didn't warn...
Just when the last heaps of snow were melting into little puddles and students were playing with frisbees and dogs in the Yard, barriers went up: white lines with poles that warn students to keep off the grass as it is reseeded and blue-green paint that some first-years have thought appeared to mask the lack of grass...