Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Laird, U.S. Army Individual Ready Reserve, a "white, single, heterosexual Vietnam-era/Persian Gulf veteran," was molested while serving by a fellow soldier whom he otherwise would have killed that morning except he decided to leave the corps instead, he told me. Noting my affiliation with "Kremlin on the Charles," he permitted me a copy of what only the White House, Rush Limbaugh and a few dozen senators had been exposed to: his Go-Pat-Go information packet which includes a pretty damn hysterical parody of the president as Uncle Sam declaring, "I want you! One good, proud, patriotic...
...resist comparing him with Alfred Dreyfus, the French army officer who was entirely innocent of the charges of treason brought against him by an anti-Semitic French officer corps at the turn of the century. And sometimes words speak louder than actions. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, which he opposed, he called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory." The only people seeking war, he said, were in the government of Israel and "its amen corner in the Congress...
...Iraq's program for developing weapons of mass destruction and had brutally suppressed the Kurds after the Gulf War. He was also married to Saddam's favorite daughter. Then one night six months ago, he suddenly drove across the desert to Jordan, accompanied by his wife, brother and sister-in-law, who is also a daughter of Saddam's, and the couples' children. Last week, equally suddenly, they all went home...
...forum, titled "The Gulf War Is Not Over For the Children of Iraq," featured Peter Pellett, head of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mary Smith Fawzi, a research associate for the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Diller was named CEO of Paramount Pictures. With Eisner, whom he installed as president, Diller made it the most profitable Hollywood studio, year in and year out. He was considered a lock for the chairmanship of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company. Then he lost a power struggle and jumped ship for 20th Century Fox in 1984. His reason for subsequently leaving Fox in 1992 was straightforward: "It's not mine," he said at the time. "I'm both young enough and old enough to want to own my own store ... It's the one thing I haven't done...