Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wreckage when the pilot suddenly banked crazily to the left, and the chopper dropped about 100 yards in five seconds. We were really startled, but nobody told us what had happened. Besides, the chopper was too noisy to allow conversation. But even when we got back to the base, the pilot initially denied that we?d been under attack. They were under orders not to say anything. Eventually they let on that the Pakistanis had fired a missile -? which Pakistan later confirmed. We were about 2 miles away from the border, and the missile exploded in the air about...
McCaffery's mission aimed to do just that. At the Tres Esquinas military base, the general visited U.S. military instructors who are training a battalion of Colombian police commandos in antidrug warfare--combat skills that the Colombians use to battle the rebels across the board. Under U.S. law the advisers are forbidden to join the Colombian police on raids, but already their presence has rattled the leftist rebels known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). If the U.S. "intervenes further in Colombia," FARC leaders said last week, "its troops will go home dead or wounded...
...riot needs no reason at all. It was hard to put one's finger on what exactly touched off the messy end last week of Woodstock '99, the three-day rock festival held in sweltering heat on an inhospitable decommissioned Air Force base in upstate New York. The overflowing Port-o-Sans that no one bothered to empty? The formidable mounds of garbage that no one collected? The rip-off prices--$4 for a bottle of water, $7.50 for a chicken sandwich? In retrospect, it seems odd that rock fans would travel halfway across the country...
Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on the extreme sport of base jumping [ESSAY, July 19] included a reference to the death of a man who parachuted from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The correct spelling of the jumper's name is Frank Gambalie III. Also, he did not die from the jump but apparently drowned after diving into a river as he fled from park rangers...
When the Schwabbies get back to home base, they have more to tell Hubbard about the experience. Virtually all of it is enthusiastic. Simon Dalgleish, a senior analyst in the business-strategy group, says he learned that "I can do things way outside the realm of what I thought I could. And it can be a blast." He even advises others never to "shy away from a challenge. By doing so you're potentially choosing not to have...