Word: desertion
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...future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison in the Negev desert. He was released only last April...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "1922" at 2 p.m. The tortuous anddevastating march of a group of captives throughthe desert of Asia Minor, immediately after itsdisaster...
...veterans' campaign for greater official recognition of the malady was bolstered last week when the Pentagon reversed itself and accepted a report from the Czech military indicating that some of its chemical sensors detected trace amounts of mustard gas and the nerve poison sarin in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. A team of U.S. experts determined that the Czech evidence was both reliable and convincing. The experts could not explain, however, where the toxins came from. "There were no Scud launches, no artillery exchanges, or no offensive actions at this time that could have delivered the chemical agents," Defense Secretary...
...this day, the spotlight on Graham is so bright that spiritual gestures are taken as political statements. "I was distraught and offended when he spent the night in the White House before Bush launched Desert Storm," says Alan Neely, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. "I saw that as Graham giving his sanction for what was about to take place. I don't think that's the role of the Christian minister...
...Russians? "They wanna be us, but they'll never be." The Kurds? "Losers" who don't know enough to come out of the desert and get a Big Mac. The Iraqis? They're asking for U.S. aid because their cities have been leveled and their people killed. "Yeah, that's basically what we wanted to do to you. That's why they call it a f-----' " Kinison suspects that the Allies finished the war in six days because they wanted to skip town "before Bob Hope comes back with another cavalcade of loser has-been stars...