Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Navy helicopter pilot who had a long, safe career, I am incensed at the tragedy in which U.S. military planes shot down two friendly helicopters over Iraq's no-fly zone ((IRAQ, April 25)). I have many questions, but chief among them are, How can an interceptor justify shooting someone down without prior verbal warning? What was the visual-I.D. training that the pilots received? Have the tremendous budget cuts caused a reduction in the readiness and capability of our military? This is one of the more serious military accidents we have experienced in recent years. There...
...From Iraq to the former Soviet empire to the Balkans, the authoritarian state exists as a piece of machinery, man-made, breakable, the borders etched by diplomats ignorant of or indifferent to ancient claims and tribal hate. Kurds fight for their freedom from Iraq and Turkey; Tamils battle Sinhalese in Sri Lanka; Armenians fight Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh; Albanian Muslims and Serbs circle each other in Kosovo. Last week Yemen was the latest country to break apart, as those in the south accused the northerners of attempting to further impoverish them. The struggles can be ancient and visceral, religious...
...Minister, who is responsible for state security, the Premier asked if they had a replacement in mind. "Me, me!" Zhirinovsky shouted. He also demanded that Deputies be allowed to carry guns and that gangsters be summarily executed. Thursday: Turned down an invite to Saddam Hussein's 57th birthday in Iraq, pleading a busy schedule...
...scandal pre-dates most of us, we know it well as the stuff of books and movies. And it is this, the sinister side of Richard Nixon, that has had a powerful effect on our generation, shaping our impressions of the scandals we ourselves have lived through--Iran-Contra, Iraq-gate and Whitewater...
...helicopters are shot down over Iraq -- by U.S. warplanes...