Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: The discovery of traces of VX nerve gas on Iraqi warheads seemingly settles one debate -- yes, Iraq's VX production had advanced sufficiently before the Gulf War that it could arm missiles with the deadly gas. But the Pentagon knew that weeks ago; the leak that landed the report in today's Washington Post was meant to remind the U.N. anew that Iraq is still not to be dealt with honestly. "It looks like it came straight from the Pentagon," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "timed to turn up the pressure on UNSCOM on the day before Richard...
...real-life events: a moon walk or the Olympics, an uprising in Tiananmen Square or Princess Diana's funeral. We conduct not only a lot of our fantasy lives on TV but also our political campaigns (and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which). From the Persian Gulf in 1991, we learned that global TV can even be a means of waging...
...very embarrassing. Majority Leader Dick Armey was on his way to the House when a staffer handed him an AP story declaring that "Bob Hope, the master of the one-liners and tireless morale-booster for servicemen from World War II to the Gulf War, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
...February of 1972, roughly 50 black protesters, primarily students, occupied Mass. Hall to protest Harvard's investment in Gulf Oil Company, which operated in South Africa...
...days later, black students from Afro andthe Pan-African Liberation Committee take overMassachusetts Hall in protest of the University'sinvestment in Gulf Oil. The students object toGulf Oil's practices in Angola and refused torelinquish the building until Harvard sold itsinterests in Gulf...