Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to drag on without end. Reduced to using 20-year- old technology against an enemy that boasts six times as much combat aircraft and four times as much artillery, it has lost an estimated 250,000 lives and still spends $7 billion a year to keep up the fight...
...Washington press conference last week, Curran insisted that the church, not he, "ultimately should change its teachings" and vowed to fight to retain his position at the university. Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, the chancellor of the university, has set a Sept. 1 deadline for Curran to decide whether to appeal through the school's own grievance procedures...
...elements of Amal have joined with more radical coreligionists in the self-defeating policy of attacking the Israeli security forces. Hizballah is actively helping the P.L.O. re-establish itself on Israel's northern border. Says a P.L.O. official: "We have a very important objective in common with Hizballah: to fight Israel...
...will join the border war against drugs. Indeed, said Meese, the effort was the "most widespread interdiction program on our land borders in law- enforcement history." In calling for invigorated efforts to crack down on drugs, President Reagan tactfully acknowledged the Mexican view of the problem by promising to fight consumption within the U.S. as well as production abroad...
Despite the new vulnerability of the oil exports that finance Iran's war effort, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini remains determined to fight until he destroys the regime of Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. Although Iran has a slight edge in the land war, Iraq in recent weeks has stepped up air attacks against targets deep inside Iran. In a retaliatory move hours before the Sirri attack, Iran for the first time in a year fired a Soviet-made Scud missile at Baghdad. Iraq said the weapon caused no damage...