Word: eviction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though the prevailing opinion is that support will fall if casualties soar, the calculation may be more complicated. To begin with, the war in the gulf is not a unilateral guerrilla war to suppress a national liberation movement; it is a struggle to evict an invading army from a neighboring country it is occupying in defiance of the U.N. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 79% expected U.S. casualties in a land war to be in the thousands or tens of thousands. Despite such catastrophic losses, 58% said they believe the war would...
...sounding especially jingoistic or bellicose. John Barry, an insurance underwriter in Troy, Mich., expressed a characteristic note: "Bush has given ample time for Iraq to leave Kuwait. I think we've got to act according to our word. We can't say we're going to militarily evict Iraq from Kuwait and then not do it. We've spent too much time and money to just whistle in the breeze and not do anything...
Starting this spring, members of the Small Property Owners Coalition (SPOC) will begin defending landlords who are attempting either to evict tenants or to remove their buildings from the city's rent control system, said Joel C. Delman, the third-year law student who heads the group...
...might begin sometime after Jan. 15, the date on which the U.N. has authorized the alliance to use "all necessary means" to evict Saddam's soldiers from Kuwait, with selective air raids on military targets in Iraq. But those supposedly "surgical strikes," all sources agree, could quickly escalate to a massive aerial bombing campaign carried out by 700 American attack planes flying out of ground bases in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, plus 200 more taking off from the six aircraft carriers the U.S. will have stationed in the region...
Last week the Israeli Supreme Court delayed by one week the government decision to evict the Jewish group, pending further deliberation by the court. The decision was likely to keep a sensitive issue simmering, since the Old City is part of territory seized by Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and is just one example of a surge in Jewish settlement beyond Israel's 1967 borders...