Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entry into the U.N. In May he had signed the first arms-control agreements with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, placing sharp restrictions on antiballistic missiles. And although Kissinger's protracted secret negotiations with the Vietnamese communists had not yet brought a truce agreement, Nixon pulled out the last U.S. combat troops in August...
...welcoming ceremony for the new contender, however, turned into a melee, and the boy spent the next few weeks under the guard of 300 monks and 400 combat-ready Europeans from a militant Buddhist school run by a Danish ex- boxer. Meanwhile, each side has hinted darkly that the other may have engineered the fatal 1992 car crash; each claims that the other may be a pawn of the Chinese. Shamar says of his rival regent, "Tai Situ is degenerate, and the people around him are like, why . . . like gangsters." Members of the opposing camp like to point out that...
...little in the beginning, when there were 30,000 troops there and all they did was give out food. Later, they used too much force in trying to get rid of Aidid. That brought the Somalis themselves into the battle, turning a humanitarian mission into urban warfare." With U.S. combat forces gone, gun battles among warring clans raged around Mogadishu late last week, threatening to plunge the country back into anarchy...
Smith says one way to combat such conflicts isfor universities to draw more members of theirgoverning boards from outside the corporate world...
...heartening to see the number of men who attended this year's take Back the Night events, including the rally and subsequent march. It demonstrated that violence against women is an issue that both men and women can work together to combat. These men also provided a sharp contrast to the trio at the Microphone, who weren't attempting to forge any links of understanding between the sexes. They weren't even generating a constructive debate. They were just venting their own hostility...