Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestine. Though Fatah receives most of its funds from the gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian diaspora, it is the only group without binding ties to an Arab government. That independence, along with the fact that about 80% of the P.L.O.'s fighters are under its command, has made Fatah a formidable power base for Arafat...
...honesty of the press, a heavy blow is dealt to democracy and to the social contract upon which it is based, and the foundations of the future freedom of the press are weakened. It seems to me that the moral obligations of the press to society should, at Harvard, command greater respect than they might elsewhere. I do not like to seem to be lecturing you on this point, but as a citizen I cannot help but have a feeling of trust betrayed. Howard L. Resnik off Associate Vice President for Information Services and Technology
...having hidden caches of "refire" missiles. That is a danger that looks real only to those who believe that a full-scale nuclear war could last over a period of weeks, even months. They fear that after absorbing half a dozen or more American strikes against missile-launching silos, command-and-control bunkers, and other critical "nodes" in the network of their political and military leadership structure, the Soviets would still be able, in the jargon of nukespeak...
DIED. William Henry Tunner, 76, Air Force general and genius of military air transport; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Va. He commanded three of the 20th century's historic airlifts: the World War II cargo transport over the Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, the massive 1948-49 Berlin operation that moved 13,000 tons a day of coal and food to the Soviet-blockaded city, and the Korean War's Combat Cargo Command that air-dropped supplies to U.S. troops trapped in North Korea by the Chinese...
...Egypt, bordering strategically on the suex Conel, has always been considered a hey to the success of military operations in the region; the assurance even of Egyptian neutrality in the event of American intervention over control of the oilfields of the Gulf States would greatly control the Soviet high command. Now Mubarak wants to perform a dangerous balancing act between the two superpowers, accepting $2 billion in American aid last year and then a few months later turning to Moncow for whatever extra...