Word: firefighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents say that 10 years ago the FBI told them it was no longer pursuing Soliah. But California still wanted her. The recent dip in crime allowed the L.A.P.D.. to reassign officers to unsolved cases, and Lieut. Tom King, 50, whose father Mervin had led the firefight against the S.L.A., took a fresh look at Soliah's and Kilgore's. His men got a federal jury to indict her for "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution." That warrant brought the FBI back in. Last month the bureau posted a $20,000 reward and asked the syndicated TV show America...
...gaudy 100-0 passage of the precooked trial blueprint. Now set to start at 1 p.m. (ET) Thursday, the process has been apportioned rather neatly: 24 hours of Senate floor time each for the House managers and the President, and 16 hours for senators' questions. Then comes the firefight: competing resolutions on whether to subpoena witnesses, followed by the up-and-down votes that will determine the course -- and perhaps the outcome -- of this impeachment trial...
...territory Tuesday, and the irregulars of the Kosovo Liberation Army moved straight back into the towns the Serbs had occupied. As if to emphasize that this is far from over, Serb paramilitaries left the town of Malisevo and then suddenly swept back in a few hours later for a firefight with the KLA. "If the Serbs pull out enough troops, NATO will suspend its activation order for air strikes," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But that doesn't mean the Serbs won't come back two weeks later and retake the towns from which they've withdrawn...
Iran claims its army whupped the Taliban in a firefight Thursday; the Afghan militia denies the incident even occurred. But the reported clash may be part of a strategy by Iranian hard-liners to undermine their moderate president. "This clash is part of a struggle for dominance in the Islamic world," says TIME correspondent Johanna McGeary. Shiite Iran wants the Sunni Taliban to hand over members who murdered eight Iranian diplomats earlier this year. It also accuses the Taliban of killing Shiite civilians inside Afghanistan, and has massed 200,000 troops on the border to underscore...
...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 about 45 minutes. The incident couldn't have come at a worse time. In just three weeks, the two sides, along with the United States and China...