Word: bagdhad
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...anti-war movement had a voice anywhere in this country, it was on college campuses. Several weeks after air strikes began on Bagdhad, a Crimson poll showed that 36 percent of students at the College did not "support U.S. participation in the war." Forty percent were skeptical of government promises of being "open and honest." And 55 percent said that sanctions were not given enough time to work...
Syria has stood midway between the pro-Western and the Anti-Western Arab states. Recently she has listed menacingly towards the Communist side. The Syrian nation is bordered on the North by Turkey, on the East by Iraq, both states of the pro-Western Bagdhad pact, of which Britain is a member. To the South is unstable Jordan, to the West solidly pro-Western Lebanon. For sixty miles on the Southeast Syria borders Israel. Syria's economy is weak, but she holds a strong card in lying squarely across the vital pipelines leading from Iraq to the West...
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