Word: annexation
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...current fighting dates from October, when Amin's forces invaded northern Tanzania, hoping to annex a section of territory that Amin had long coveted. The action caused some 4,000 Ugandans who had previously escaped from their country to gather in Tanzania near the fighting area. There they received rudimentary military training, then crossed the border and began to link up with dissidents inside Uganda...
...athletics. The first college sporting event was a Harvard crew race. "Athletics for All." Winning traditions. Famous athletes and coaches. I heard it all. But no one ever talked about the Indoor Athletic Building. Today I saw it. The IAB. Surely, someone is kidding me. This must be the annex to Cambridge High and Latin. It is bad enough that this building exists. It is worse that I am inside it. It is appalling that I am here to take something called a swimming test. (Note: in 1969, freshman had to take their swimming tests sans bathing suits, adding...
...suspicious Arab colleagues that Egypt was attempting to bargain for the good of all the Arab states. The immediate effect was to prompt the U.S. State Department to release the official American version of the draft to the press (see box). Washington also released the text of one annex to the treaty, dealing with future diplomatic, cultural and economic relations between Israel and Egypt. As it turned out, the dry, legalistic documents contained references to the pursuit of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, but no timetable for achieving local autonomy on the West Bank and in Gaza...
Dayan also offered significant concessions on the West Bank and Gaza. Israel would agree to a declaration of principles involving the future of these occupied territories and the 1.1 million Palestinians living there. He said that Israel would agree not to annex those areas, not to establish any more settlements there once a joint declaration had been achieved, and to maintain only enough military force there for its own security. He added that the Begin government would be prepared to accept a West Bank administration composed of Israeli and Jordanian representatives and local Palestinians...
...hard at deciding whether you can be someone on your own." Despite the conflicts of a search for identity, the inherent difficulties of attending a women's college that hired the professors of the men's college next to it, that was labelled and sometimes seemed like, an "Annex," Bromage feels Radcliffe gave her a good deal: "You get a sense of enthusiasm that many people later label naivete, but what is your definition of naivete to be? I think one derives from Cambridge an intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness, a lack of preconceptions, that appears to be naive." What...