Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked about the "retaliation" bombings in Sudan and Afghanistan, Mamet replied, "It's kind of stunning...how sexual indiscretions, or, better yet, misuse of [President Clinton's] office becomes murder, the killing of innocent people...
...greatest offense Clinton committed was to bomb Sudan and Afghanistan with missiles in what many see as a move to cover up his shameful conduct. The Muslim nations the world over will hate the U.S., a condition that will last for a generation or more. KONSIN C. SHAH Taipei...
...region. Although he speaks emotionally of Iraq's suffering under U.N. sanctions, he places the blame where Clinton does--squarely on Saddam Hussein. On the eve of his Washington visit, Abdullah took a step that delighted U.S. officials: he cut Saudi relations with the fundamentalist Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, who have given haven to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The reason, Abdullah explained, was that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar broke three promises he had made to Riyadh to expel or extradite the exiled Saudi fundamentalist accused by the U.S. of masterminding global terror...
...money for political campaigns. Nothing eleventh-hour about the most recent efforts of Jay Leno and his wife, Mavis. The couple held a meeting last week in their Beverly Hills, Calif., home to raise $500,000 and plan early strategy for a publicity campaign to end "gender apartheid in Afghanistan." Industry heavyweight Sid Scheinberg and actress Teri Garr were among the 45 people who attended. The group aims to stop corporate investment and to cease recognition by any nation of the Taliban government, which has barred women from schooling and work. Mavis Leno has gone beyond giving parties. Two weeks...
...Iran's leadership, however, is divided over the clash with Afghanistan. "President Khatami has been trying to avoid being drawn into a shooting war, but hard-liners have been egging it on," says McGeary. And the fact that the hard-liners control the army makes it difficult for Khatami to keep a lid on things. But even if Iran does launch punitive strikes, its military knows better than to be drawn into the quagmire of an actual invasion of Afghanistan -- Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof of how much that does for one's domestic political standing...