Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...much time in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here they are again.'" The presidential race is so close that every vote matters, but it's becoming clear that some votes matter more than others. "This election," says Bush strategist Karl Rove, "is going to be decided in the last precinct, in the last state, in the last hour, on the last day." No one issue, no one theme...
...state where his own brother is Governor. Gore continues to press hard in Florida, but a top campaign official is worried: "We're tied or up 3% there, but that's a lot of money. At some point, you wonder whether they can overwhelm you. And in a close race, just 2 points..." The official's voice trails...
...chafing at a policy they considered too restrained, were happy to oblige with a detailed target strike list. Within hours, Israeli Cobra attack helicopters were in the air over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, unleashing their missiles on five carefully chosen Palestinian security sites, one of them close enough to rattle the Gaza headquarters in which Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was holding court. The Palestinians screamed that Barak had declared war. "It's nonsense, bullshit and propaganda," Barak told CNN. "It was not a millionth of what we can do if it was really...
...mission with the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, where it would enforce the international oil embargo against Iraq, had upgraded the ship's Threatcon to "bravo," the Navy's second-highest state of alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck, armed and at attention. But they missed the threat. Several small boats approached to assist in attaching the Cole's thick 5-in. lines to fixed buoys. At 12:15, a small harbor boat mingling among...
...darkest moments of our post-Vietnam experience, U.S. Army General Bill DePuy visited Israel. It was right after the 1973 October War, when Israeli forces defeated a series of massed Syrian armor attacks on the Golan Heights. This was a climactic battle, and the victory was close and costly...