Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel Chemicals, the country's largest government-owned company. Washington also wants Israel to return the 360 cu. ft. of American intelligence documents that Pollard stole from the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., where he worked. The papers covered a wide range of highly sensitive subjects, from Arab nuclear facilities to Soviet surface-to-air missile capabilities...
...Basra, Iraq's second largest city, has become the longest and most crucial campaign in the 6 1/2- year Iran-Iraq war. More than 20,000 Iranian troops and 10,000 Iraqis have died since Jan. 9, when Iranian Revolutionary Guards attacked Iraqi defenses along the Shatt al Arab, a broad waterway that forms the southern frontier of the warring nations, and advanced on Basra some ten miles away. The stakes in the fighting, which has settled into a ferocious standoff a few miles outside the city, could not be higher: an Iranian victory would demoralize the Iraqis and could...
...Iranians are clearly trying to break the city's will. Nearly every building along the section of the Shatt al Arab that flows past Basra has been damaged or destroyed. The beige facade of the deserted four-story Sheraton Basra is pockmarked with shrapnel and shell holes. During the intense bombardment in January and February, thousands of panicked residents abandoned their middle-class brick homes near the water...
Beneath the onslaught, the city's piers lie idle. A major shipping center in calmer days, the port of Basra is now filled with stranded and rusting vessels. In the middle of the Shatt al Arab, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, two cargo ships lie half submerged, the apparent victims of random shells...
Their kidnappers, who said Monday that Steen was near death, offered to trade him for 100 Arab prisoners held in Israel and demanded that the United States persuade the Israelis to agree. Both governments have refused to accept the deal...