Word: gulf
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...position to handsomely compensate his hosts for some of their losses. While U.S. trade with Afghanistan amounted to little more than $28 million last year, Bin Laden is reported by the AP to have recently taken delivery of as much as $50 million in donations from Saudi and Gulf businessmen ? and might have received a lot more if the Saudi government hadn?t intervened to stop the transfers...
Somalia and the Persian Gulf War each imprinted America's role in the world with new ideas about force and diplomacy. Now Clinton and his advisers are eager to ensure that Operation Allied Force adds some fin-de-siecle twists. For starters, it has made the once gawky Clinton Administration far more confident mixing force and diplomacy overseas. Last week a buoyed Clinton, greatly relieved that NATO jets weren't still flying attack sorties over the former Yugoslavia, took his own jet for a postwar, feel-good victory lap in Europe. Air Force One stopped first in Paris, where Clinton...
...American lives lost in combat during the Gulf...
...been the Pope of Protestant America (if Protestant is still the right word). Graham's finest moment may have been when he appeared at President Bush's side, Bible in hand, as we commenced our war against Iraq in 1991. The great revivalist's presence symbolized that the gulf crusade was, if not Christian, at least biblical. Bush was not unique among our Presidents in displaying Graham. Eisenhower and Kennedy began the tradition of consulting the evangelist, but Johnson, Nixon and Ford intensified the fashion that concluded with Bush's naming him "America's pastor." President Clinton has increasingly preferred...
...volunteer G.I.s of today stand watch in Korea, the Persian Gulf, Europe and the dangerous terrain of the Balkans. We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society. They are our best, and we owe them our full support and our sincerest thanks...