Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Reagan Administration swiftly tried to defuse the crisis, minimizing its significance. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger characterized the attack ; as a "single, horrible error on the part of the Iraqi pilot" who mistook the frigate for an Iranian tanker. Iraq's President Saddam Hussein promptly sent an apology to the...
The Kuwaiti cargo ship was carrying American-made M-60 tanks that had been sold to Bahrain by the United States. The ship completed its journey Monday night "without incident," the Pentagon said.
In recent weeks Harvard has been treated to the spectacle of a "law" professor proclaiming that he would have trouble condemning someone who assassinated speakers whose political views the professor judged unacceptable. It is perhaps inevitable that academic freedom protects even this degree of zaniness, but it would be a...
Peyser, former editor of the Musical Quarterly and author of an earlier warts-and-all biography of Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez, professes to admire the manifest gifts of Bernstein the musician, but clearly she finds Bernstein the man repugnant. How else to account for incident after unpalatable incident that depicts...
Last week the government also showed off an undetonated U.S.-made Sidewinder air-to-air missile, embedded in the mud a stone's throw from the walls and huts of the Afghan hamlet of Seluddinkala, ten miles from Pakistan. Army officers claimed it was fired at an Afghan plane by...