Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army has gone, Najibullah has begun harping on how much the rebels are run by Pakistan and the U.S. His case has been helped by recent news accounts that Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had ordered Lieut. General Hamid Gul, head of Pakistan's military intelligence organization (ISI) to launch the bloody Jalalabad assault. Gul and the ISI are unmistakably doing their best to direct the mujahedin operations, but it seems likely that he told Bhutto of the impending attack rather than the reverse. Although the mujahedin cause remains popular, Pakistan's role in the rebel campaign, whether as arms...
...when fully loaded -- in his quest for a 600-ship Navy. Military reformers argued that battleships were obsolete, the products of a technology that has gone essentially unchanged for 50 years. The Navy proposed to modernize the vessels by replacing one of their three gun turrets with cruise-missile launch batteries. That plan was later discarded...
...azure-and-gilt hot-air balloon, a reproduction of an 18th century model, wafted skyward in a "salute to liberty" as thousands of spectators gathered in the Tuileries Gardens last January for the official launch of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. The Republican Guard played a fanfare. An actor solemnly read the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen...
Reynolds recounts that his grandfather was hesitant to cater to the budding cigarette craze in 1911 because he feared that the smoke from the paper wrappers might be harmful. But when scientific tests seemed to prove otherwise, Reynolds made the fateful decision to launch a new brand, Camel...
...likely to be 8 to 4 in favor of finding some violations. The defection of two Democrats is not a mortal wound, but if the same percentage abandons Wright when the entire House votes, his hold on the speakership would be in peril. Democrats had been urging Wright to launch a pre-emptive defense. Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait for the report, we have to wait for the report.' Meanwhile the leaks were hurting. We needed something to rally around." History...