Word: annexations
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...Penne a "poor imbecile" who was the head of a "pro-Libyan lobby,"Habré said after the meeting that his relations with France were "clear and unambiguous."Habré, 41, a wiry man with fierce brown eyes, reserved his harshest words for Gaddafi, who in 1973 seized and annexed a 44,000-sq.-mi. stretch of northern Chad known as the Aozou Strip. SaidHabré: "Libya now occupies half of Chad. Gaddafi wants to annex Chad, and that is that...
Inoue, who first established himself as a TV script and gag writer, combines the fecundity of Isaac Asimov, the antic regionalism of Erskine Caldwell and the solemn dedication of Inoue Proust. A lapsed Catholic, Inoue works in a monkish annex that he calls "the cockpit," next to his vast and growing collection of books. Except for dinner breaks with his wife of 21 years, he shuns company. "The world of imagination is my reality," he says. "I haven't left this house in a month." He refuses to attend parties, to undertake book tours or appear on TV interview...
...that China had "renewed its acts of war against Viet Nam," and blamed the Chinese for border infractions almost identical to those that China had complained about. Viet Nam's Communist Party Secretary General Le Duan said last month that the Chinese goal was "to weaken and eventually annex" Viet...
...Lebanese were taking such talk seriously. As an aide to President Gemayel said, "We cannot dismiss the possibility that at some point the Syrians could declare Lebanon's existence null and void [as they] annex the areas of Lebanon that are under their control." What is certain is that the Syrians are already trying to influence Lebanese politics by exerting pressure on a variety of factions within the beleaguered country to oppose the agreement. Last week a meeting of those factions was held in the northern Lebanese town of Zgharta...
Recently leaked top-secret American documents seem to prove the opposite. They show that the U.S. foreign policy makers were aware that Indonesian President Suharto was concerned about world opinion and resisted the demands of his generals to annex East Timor for over a year. These leaked documents were passages from the "National Intelligence Daily," a briefing document published by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for a small, specially cleared audience in Washington--which included, the President of the United States. These leaked intelligence briefs, published in the Australian newspaper National Times in May and June...