Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never again would one country bulldoze a path of conquest over a neighbor. Never again would the great powers lock in a titanic death struggle ravaging the continents. More than that, the causes of war would be extinguished. Tyranny, injustice and deprivation would never again blot out the light of the world. Governments of good faith would band together under the universal benevolence of something called the United Nations...
...people of Kuwait any more egregious than the slaughter that General Ratko Mladic is spreading across Bosnia? Simple analysis of the total number of civilians killed in each conflict allows almost anyone to conclude that the war in Bosnia has been more destructive than Saddam Hussein's conquest of Kuwait. Why, then, will America fight for Kuwait and not for Yugoslavia...
...Peter Galbraith, said he had "a preliminary report" that Zepa had fallen, according to the Associated Press. Under the terms of surrender, Barnes says, the Serbs will move about 30 heavily-wounded Muslim residents to Sarajevo on Thursday. Though the Serbs reportedly captured, killed or tortured men in their conquest of Srebrenica, the other "safe area," last week, they have promised to move all Zepa residents to the nearby town of Klandanj. That pledge may be meaningless: "The soldiers will try and escape," Barnes says. "The rumors from Srebrenica are that the soldiers being held in detention are really being...
...President said later. "The car windows were hit by one of the bullets, which almost went through." Several assailants were killed in a heavy exchange of gunfire with Ethiopian and Egyptian security forces; one survivor is reportedly under interrogation. A man claiming to represent the Muslim fundamentalist Vanguards of Conquest group lauded today's assassination attempt: "We welcome the attack on Mubarak," the man said in Arabic. "We will finish him the next time...
...Miserables' world conquest has been fueled by its universal message. It is the classic triumph of good over evil translated into and out of a great French novel and onto a revolving stage with full chorus. Like all moving theatrical experiences from Greek tragedies on, Les Mis invites the audience to apply themes from the show to their own lives...