Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French and British ships are part of an international flotilla building up inside and outside the Persian Gulf that totals about 80 vessels--the largest such naval gathering since the Korean War. About six Soviet warships are also in the area...
...Before he is through, they will all be citoyens du monde. He uncorked a bottle of vin rouge and placed a large, juicy slab of meat on the charcoal grill. He looked serene, and if there were a word to sum up why, it would have to be a French one, naturally. Debrouillardise, say. Roughly, it means to know your way around...
...four, Jean-Marc Rouillan, 34, and Nathalie Menigon, 30, are known as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of French terrorism, because of their brutal five- year reign as leaders of Action Directe. Rouillan is suspected of masterminding the murder of a French general in 1985, while Menigon and the second woman, Joelle Aubron, 27, had been sought for the assassination last November of the president of Renault, France's largest automaker. Action Directe is thought to have been responsible for as many as 80 terrorist attacks since...
...arrests and indictments of the four on charges of possessing weapons and explosives were greeted as a major victory in the French war against terrorism. Exulted a headline in the daily newspaper Le Parisien: ACTION DIRECTE DECAPITATED AT LAST! Others, however, fear that the terrorist group may be Hydra-headed...
...most unstable. Founded in 1975, Amal quickly became the main Shi'ite political movement. One of its aims has been to wrest a more equitable share of power from the Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims, who have divided most of the political spoils since Lebanon became independent of French rule in 1943. In recent months, however, Amal has lost ground within the Shi'ite community to the radical Hizballah (Party of God). Hizballah's rising power concerns Assad because the group, which is allied with Iran, has dreams of establishing an Iranian-style Islamic republic in Lebanon...