Word: confrontations
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...maneuvers were far from routine. The Navy did indeed seem intent on challenging Gaddafi's claim that the 300-mile-wide gulf belongs to Libya. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who devised the strategy and won White House support, had another purpose as well: to show Libya what it might confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they don't react...
...February 9 elections will highlight growing Council factionalism over which issues Harvard's self-proclaimed "first working student government" should confront, according to representatives. The crux of the debate is whether the Council should take "political" stands...
...unlike any of his predecesors, Offutt will confront a challenge masterminded by Council veterans who have formed a "ticket" of opposition candidates. Three members campaigning for the Council's most influential offices have bound their bids together...
...enormous yellow muppet. Watching "Sesame Street", they will learn how to cooperate, how not to hurt others' feelings, how to get along with people who are different from themselves. In the wake of the advances in public health and medicine, fellow classmates, more than the spectre of death, confront children...
...Peres' internal investigation of the affair began leaking to the press, the Prime Minister stubbornly refused to comment on the case. When Shultz placed his call to Peres, the Reagan Administration was impatient for at least some sign of progress on the Pollard inquiry. It was time to confront the issue...