Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RESOLUTION'S RECORD during its 10 year history has been mixed. President Ford's actions during the Mayaguez piracy/kidnapping incident certainly involved a threat to US citizens, but not necessarily territory or service personnel. The same can be said about President Carter's abortive attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages, although he has been the only President to date who has complied with the Resolution as a whole. The case for Reagan' actions is more tenuous still. Lebanon had almost no Americans in residence last year, and moreover we have no formal defense agreement with the Lebanese Government. The question...
...Granddaughter Amy, whom she called "my heart." But she also found time for speeches and TV interviews, charming the public with her ingenuous candor. That outspokenness continued after Carter's election, though her off-the-cuff comments sometimes could be embarrassing to the increasingly beleaguered President. During the Iranian hostage crisis, she blurted that she would like to have the Ayatullah Khomeini assassinated...
Three years after Iraq launched its invasion of Iran, the war between those Persian Gulf neighbors continues to take an alarming toll of civilians. In the wake of a new Iranian offensive into Iraq's mountainous northwestern region, the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched Soviet-made FROG missiles at three Iranian cities in the southern province of Khuzistan. In addition, Iraq bombed several towns in northwestern Iran with Soviet-made fighters and bombers. Civilian casualties were estimated to be in the hundreds. Tehran also charged that Iraq had resorted to chemical warfare for the second time...
...Iranian offensive was aimed at reasserting Tehran's authority over its own territory, some of which has been under the control of rebellious Kurdish nationalists, as well as seizing strategic chunks of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Tehran government claimed last week that its forces had captured 270 sq. mi. of Iraqi territory in the bloody week-old thrust, including several mountain strongholds...
Baghdad admitted that it had used long-range missiles against Iranian cities, and an Iraqi military spokesman said the "crushing strikes" would continue as long as Iran persisted in its attacks. Iraqi officials also said they had launched floating mines in the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini in the western end of the gulf. They renewed their threat to destroy the huge Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island if Iran continued its blockade of Iraq's oil exports through the gulf. In addition, Iraq warned Japan that a large petrochemical complex under construction by a Japanese firm at Bandar...