Word: fomented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategic Strait of Hormuz. The mysterious new tower that had been spotted near the town turned out to be no Soviet listening post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa...
...Indeed, even the head of the governing Democratic Republican Party, Kim Jong Pil, was detained. The arrest that proved to be a decisive provocation, however, was that of the government's leading critic, Kim Dae Jung. To justify their actions, the authorities charged that he had connived to foment the recent unrest and to overturn the government...
...contract job." U.S. Ambassador Robert White agreed, adding that a government official had informed him that right-wing Cuban exiles were operating in the country. The widespread suspicion was that rightists may have ordered the assassination, either to vent their outrage over the reforms or simply to help foment the chaos that might provoke a complete military takeover...
Rather, the aim would be to allow Pakistan to fend off minor Soviet border incursions and to control its own ethnic separatists in case Moscow should try to foment rebellions among these minorities...