Word: conquests
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...even if that obstacle could be hurdled -- which is surely a pipe dream -- there is still the tricky matter of Saddam's ultimate designs. From his assumption of power in Iraq in 1979, Saddam has sought regional hegemony: if not by outright territorial conquest, then by the application of military muscle to dictate oil-production quotas, pricing arrangements and regional diplomacy. Beyond that, Saddam's animosity toward Israel remains unappeased. Without his military might, Saddam is just another bit player...
Even diplomats who generally favor a more influential role for Japan in world affairs are concerned. They are worried that the specter of Japanese troops operating outside the country might stir resentment abroad, especially in Asia, where the memory of Japanese conquest and occupation in World War II has yet to fade and resentment of Japanese wealth is widespread...
...more than two decades of practice, Yasser Arafat has become an expert in the fine art of survival. Now the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization will once again have to use all his skills to find a way through the current crisis. By refusing to condemn Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, Arafat has infuriated many of his Arab backers, alienated Western powers that had only recently begun to warm to him, and driven Israeli doves into the camps of the hawks...
Members of the magazine, which is trying to publish again this year after a one-year hiatus, said yesterday that they launched the campaign against the explorer because they feel Columbus began a process of conquest which has adversely affected native populations for severalcenturies since. Columbus is popularly creditedwith the discovery in North America...
...women and the use of spies. The series has a special knack for resonant details and lucid generalizations. The unprecedented number of casualties, explains Foote, was due to the fact that war's technology had outstripped tactics: bayonet charges were outmoded, but few generals realized it. After its conquest by the Union Army on the Fourth of July in 1863, the city of Vicksburg, Miss., did not celebrate the holiday for another 81 years...