Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The clash that followed -- perhaps intended by Gaddafi -- threw the focus back on Washington's seeming eagerness to swing a big stick at easy targets. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze noted that the dogfight had "poisoned the atmosphere" as 142 nations opened a five-day conference in Paris over the...
Moreover, the State Department disclosed that it has been quietly exchanging messages with Gaddafi for several weeks and that it sent the Libyan government a detailed explanation of last week's shooting incident. Still, Libya's U.N. Deputy Ambassador, Ali Sunni Muntasser, charged that the Navy had attacked two unarmed...
Was this reckless attack, then, really intended to fail? "We suspect -- mostly on the basis of the two Libyan pilots parachuting from their MiGs -- that they intentionally provoked the incident," said an Italian government official. Besides being concerned about the chemical plant, added a West German diplomat, Gaddafi "has been...
Officials called it an "isolated incident" when a brawl between African scholars and university security guards in Nanjing two weeks ago sparked street protests by Chinese students. But charges that the foreign students were beaten and tortured surfaced in Nanjing last week, and that ugly episode was followed by further...
Harvard Police Department Deputy Chief Jack W. Morse refused to release any information about the incident. Morse said state law prohibits police departments from disclosing information about sensitive crimes, such as sexual assaults.