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...officers followed the bartender and they specifically heard him tell [the underage patron] to 'get rid of the drink.' Then [the patron] said he didn't have any alcohol," Scali said...
...Persian Gulf region in response to the latest provocation by Saddam Hussein. "The Pentagon is ready to send in aircraft with pilots, which can obviously be more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched at a U.S. F-16 fighter jet patrolling northern Iraq. U.S. forces were unable to locate the battery to return fire when the Iraqis apparently turned their radar off seconds after firing the missile...
...Chechnya, disengage troops on the ground and set up a conciliation commission. He swaggered a bit, claiming he had a secret plan to end the Chechnya problem for good but had to talk with President Boris Yeltsin before making it public. And he boldly demanded that Yeltsin get rid of the Moscow official he blamed for Russia's latest bloody disaster in Chechnya, where a week of brutal combat has returned the capital city of Grozny to rebel control...
After first wishing to avert his eyes from the population of the disabled, of which he was now a part, he gradually came to accept what was before him. He got rid of his security guards. "I started wheeling into other people's rooms and talking with them. We realized we were no different from one another. Some very nice friendships developed." From time to time, he goes back to Kessler to visit with the people he met there...
...coughed" at intervals as well. Coughing gets rid of the mucus in his respiratory system--in his throat or sometimes deep in his lungs. A nurse holds a coughalator to his throat, which functions like a vacuum cleaner. When she removes the tubing to the ventilator, it sets off a high-pitched alarm, as in a pop-off. Then she puts in inhalers to help Reeve's lungs open and breathe...