Word: ite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sand is littered with Iranian bodies as far as the eye can see, when it is not squinting against the blowing sand. An Iraqi bulldozer is pushing the corpses into a hastily dug burial ground. Pennants were found among the bodies, reading NEXT STOP, AN NAJAF, the Shi'ite holy city in central Iraq where Khomeini spent 14 years in exile plotting the overthrow of the Shah...
...foreigners have already fled and business has come to a standstill. He is counting on a cease-fire by the end of October, although he agrees that the Iranians will not easily give up their dream of capturing Basra. "Most of the Iranians are members of the Shi'ite sect of Islam, and they want Basra," he explains, "because they know the Shi'ites here will welcome them with open arms. The Shi'ites are not saying anything these days. They are waiting for the Iranian army to get here before they show their true feelings...
...Class of , it just ain't so. The Crimson's poll of about ercent of the class concluded that large majos approve of Harvard academically and soy. Students downplayed widely publicized of rampant pre-professionalism. Seventy- percent said they were "satisfied with Harvard academically." A similar proportion said that ite Harvard's lack of structured student fac contact, they had found professors generally essible undergraduates make an effort to them...
...Iran evinces no signs of accommodating Saddam Hussein's wishes. Tehran insists that peace can be achieved only after three conditions are satisfied: the repatriation of 120,000 Iraqi Shi'ites exiled in Iran, the payment of $150 billion in war reparations and "punishment of the aggressor." For Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and other mullahs in the government hierarchy, the last condition means nothing less than Saddam Hussein's ouster, the destruction of the ruling Baath Party and the establishment of a pro-Iran Shi'ite regime in Baghdad...
...long will the war last? On that question at least, most Iraqis and Iranians agreed: a long time. When Khomeini ordered the invasion of Iraq, he assumed that Iraqi defenses would quickly crumble. He also assumed that Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, who form 55% of the country's population, would rise up against the Saddam Hussein government and welcome the Iranian liberators. After that, Khomeini believed, it would be an easy matter to overthrow Saddam and his ruling Baath Party and to establish an Islamic republic in Iraq. But so far, the Iraqis have fought bravely...