Word: initiales
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After the thermal heat came the blast, spreading out from the explosion center at an initial speed of 2 m.p.s. and then subsiding toward the speed of sound. Shock waves were the principal threat of conventional bombs, but Little Boy achieved a new order of destructive power. Unleashing the equivalent...
While in Algeria the junta brazenly ignored the popular vote in democratic elections, in Egypt the dictatorial regime of Mubarak, who has been in power for 14 years, launched massive pre-emptive strikes against similar rising political forces in the form of Islamic movements. This initial action led to cycles...
To understand why that is so, and to get a sense of what the near future holds for the West Bank, one need only look at the experience of Palestinian self-rule so far. When Arafat entered the Gaza Strip, he and his aides raised expectations to an absurd height...
Headed by New York's Alfonse D'Amato, a special Senate committee launched yet another investigation into the Clintons' Whitewater financial dealings, a probe Republicans hope will prove politically bruising to the Administration. The initial focus of the hearings -- the handling of documents in deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office...
Director Magaw says ATF has begun to change. His first priority, he says, was to address what he saw as the central lesson of the Waco disaster: lack of training, even among field commanders. The initial raid, which took place Feb. 28, 1993, was by all accounts an inexcusable disaster...