Word: predawn
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...their vocal, anti-Castro, Cuban-American supporters, Juan Miguel was a dupe or worse who sought his son's return to hell. The father talked about strafing his adversaries with a rifle. The relatives dared the government to take Elian by force. Finally it came to that: a predawn raid that produced dueling images--a terrified Elian cornered in a closet, a happy boy with his father (at left, after their reunion, with crumbs around his mouth from a pre-cartoon-watching snack of toast). It is tempting but inaccurate to say politics simply overrode love in this case. Elian...
...peace process. The former U.S. senator is heading a commission of European heavyweights charged with investigating the root causes of the current violence in the West Bank and Gaza, and recommending remedies. The urgency, and complexity, of their task was underlined Wednesday when four Palestinian policemen died in a predawn shootout with Israeli troops at the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, while a Hamas member was shot dead in Hebron. As ever, the circumstances of each incident differed according to which side was relating them...
Kilby eventually left TI to teach and tinker full time, earning more than 60 patents. One was for a device his wife requested that seems especially relevant in this telemarketing era: it lets you block out unwanted phone calls--though presumably not predawn calls from Stockholm...
...couldn't celebrate his Iowa surprise, waylaying John McCain's bus as it plowed through the snow--but Al Gore at least was on fire. He stayed in Iowa barely long enough to thank voters there before Air Force Two was in the air, heading to Manchester for a predawn arrival, just ahead of the storm. By 7 he was ensconced at a local diner, giving nine television interviews in an hour and a half, before the campaign entourage dragged itself back to the hotel for what everyone hoped would be an hour of rest. But not for the Veep...
There were surely many emotions in the heart of Elizabet Brotons Rodriguez when she bundled Elian into a crowded 17-ft. aluminum skiff in the predawn hours of Sunday, Nov. 21. High among them must have been hope. In the 40 years since Fidel Castro came to power, tens of thousands of Cubans have taken a fateful step to a better life in just the same way: from shore to boat, with hopes of a quick and easy landfall. And 1999 was a particularly popular year for the trip. The Coast Guard picked up more than 1,300 rafters, more...