Word: 36th
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...starved or froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing its own laws and taxes. Out of deference to Washington and Ankara, Kurdistan still flies the Iraqi flag, but no officials from Baghdad are allowed...
Forced to the rescue, a coalition of more than 20,000 allied troops carved out a security zone for the Kurds near the Turkish border. They also ordered Saddam to stop flying his planes in airspace north of the 36th parallel. The refugees came down from the mountains and tried to put their lives back together. But after most of the allied security forces left last summer, the Iraqis rushed into action to subdue the Kurds and their armed guerrilla units, the peshmerga...
...Saddam's discomfort, the rebels not only stood their ground but launched a furious counteroffensive in October, expanding their control far south of the 36th parallel and seizing the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah (pop. 1.2 million). Iraqi troops retreated in disorder, leaving behind long lines of tanks...
...TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Joseph A. Califano Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $25). L.B.J.'s closest aide on domestic policy during the mid-'60s delivers a hard, pure nugget of the 36th President. Califano provides graphic reports of the bullying and lying that ultimately consumed the Texan, but also shows the larger purpose -- the civil rights campaign, the legislative battles on health, education and housing -- that struggled within the tortured...
...athletic career was particularly rough for someone who had been an Honorable Mention All-Ivy the year before and who had been contacted last summer by a number of professional scouts about a career in the NFL. A prospectus of the 1991 NFL draft pinned Callahan as the 36th-best offensive tackle in the country-- even with the injury...