Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While I have been assured by administration officials that there is no connection with the impeachment process in the House of Representatives, I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time", his statement said...
Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon was sending an additional 36 combat aircraft to the Gulf. He said more ground troops also would...
...Moscow hotel suite when plainclothes police bang on the door. Through an interpreter from the Russian Foreign Ministry, they announce that they are placing the visiting former U.S. President under arrest on an extradition request from Iraq. He is charged with war crimes, including an air attack during the Gulf War that targeted an underground bomb shelter and killed hundreds of civilians...
...parody of a familiar religious image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd of his mourning disciples. You only need to try to imagine a Western equivalent to this--a deposition from the cross, say, with Christ as a carrot--to realize what a gulf lay between Buddhist and Christian attitudes. Part of Jakuchu's point is that his image is not merely blasphemous, and was not thought to be: radishes, like all other living things, have their Buddha nature. And yet it's funny--as much of a joke...
...instance, Gabler claims that the Gulf War was a cinematic production. He cites the musical themes and news coverage titles (NBC's "America at War," ABC and CNN's "Crisis in the Gulf") developed by each network and the reporters who became stars overnight...