Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote a cable to President Assad in his capacity as my partner in the war in which I told him I had decided to accept a ceasefire. I put on record, in that telegram, the substance of my stand on this issue-that I was not afraid of a confrontation with Israel but that I would not confront the United States. I would not allow the Egyptian forces or Egypt's strategical targets to be destroyed once again. And I was willing to be brought to book by my people in Egypt and the Arab world, to answer...
...dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone -police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital-provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors. "When 21 out of 38 die in one year," admitted De Corte, "it is too much." Besides, the diary contained entries of Godfrida-administered "tortures," like ripping catheter tubes out of bladders...
Industrial toxic poisoning is on the rise in the United States. These cases are not isolated incidents; they represent merely a handful of known tragedies. More serious tragedies are inevitable unless the public recognizes the national scope of the problem, and acts now to confront the dangers toxic substances pose to human health...
...important thing to remember about punk besides what it has thrived in diametric opposition to, is where it comes from. "Punks" like Ricky and the Invaders had to confront a lot of things that aren't easily found on manicured suburban lawns...
Panama treaty proponents confront a parliamentary thicket...