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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wore native dress, but carried AK-47s and other Soviet-made equipment over their shoulders. They insisted that no "Cubbanos" had come with them. Nonetheless, guerrillas declared that their goal was not simply the liberation of Shaba from Kinshasa's rule but the ouster of Mobutu and the creation of a more radical government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: The Shaba Tigers Return | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...these Palestinian commandos even living in Lebanon--did they once live somewhere else? In examining the pre-1948 territorial situation, one makes the vital realization that these commandos are rocketing the very areas in which Palestinians once lived and were uprooted after the May 15, 1948, U.N. creation of the state of Israel and the ensuing...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...Would such a terrorist problem even exist if the creation of the state of Israel had not forcefully displaced 700,000 Palestinians from their homes--and if the Israelis had not conquered approximately 25,000 square miles of territory (an area over three times the size of Israel itself) in the 1967 war and hence caused over 150,000 West Bank refugees to become twice-displaced as they, along with an additional 100,000 West Bank residents, fled across the Jordan? Would this commando problem exist if the Palestinians had been granted an independent state or entity to compensate...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...conflict in an objective manner and to begin to learn about the Palestinians.... They are not fighting against Jews, but against Zionist ideology and institutions that have separated Palestinians from Jews and allowed the Israeli ruling elite to dominate and persecute the Palestinians. They are struggling, therefore, for the creation of a new society where Jews, Christians, and Moslems can coexist with equal rights within a secular democratic state...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...years of inflation and deterioration of the franc; in Paris. A firm advocate of the gold standard as an economic foundation for all Western countries, Rueff in 1958 carried out a drastic reduction in borrowing, the removal of nearly all quota restrictions for international trade and most significantly, the creation of a new franc (worth 100 old francs), which helped restore France's balance of trade and built up its gold reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1978 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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