Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last August, when SADDAM'S tanks crushed the Iraqi National Congress and blew apart a CIA support operation, embarrassed U.S. officials blamed INC infighting. True, a Kurdish INC faction did invite the dictator back into northern Iraq's no-go zone. But documents obtained by TIME suggest that by failing to match tough words with tough deeds, the U.S. helped bring on the rout...
...South Korean maneuvers are set to start on August 18. And Uncle Sam seems to be further antagonizing the North by flying 150 warplane reconnaissance flights near the demilitarized zone. Perhaps they've been encouraged by recent reports of mass starvation over the border. But they would do well to remember another maxim: don't beat a man when he's down...
...South Korean maneuvers are set to start on August 18. And Uncle Sam seems to be further antagonizing the North by flying 150 warplane reconnaissance flights near the demilitarized zone. Perhaps they've been encouraged by recent reports of mass starvation over the border. But they would do well to remember another maxim: don't beat a man when he's down...
Twenty years after the first cases of Lyme disease were reported in and around Old Lyme, Conn., the epidemic of tick-borne infections seems to be taking a detour into the twilight zone. Doctors know how to diagnose it--most of the time. They can even cure it--most of the time. Pharmaceutical companies are working on two promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims...
...south of committing a "grave armed provocative act." South Korea, which reported no casualties, fired back, saying the skirmish was an "intentional provocation" by North Korea. South Korean military officials said its border guards discovered a small group of North Korean troops on the south side of the demilitarized zone and ordered them to pull back. South Korean troops then fired about 200 warning shots into the air after the northern troops ignored the warning. A direct firefight ensued as the North Korean troops fired at the southern soldiers with rifles followed by mortar rounds and artillery. The battle lasted...