Word: launching
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Winter is the killing season in the swamps around the Persian Gulf. It is then that Iran, knowing the heavy rains will blunt the firepower of Iraq's tanks and air force, can most effectively launch its "human wave" assaults against the Iraqi marshlands. For months now, as it has for several winters past, the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has been threatening to launch a "final offensive" against the Iraqis before the beginning of the Persian new year on March...
...Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, the first of 60 works to feature the world-famous detective. Sherlockians figure Holmes was 33 when the story was published. They have also divined that Jan. 6 was his birthday. That conveniently provided Holmes' exact age -- and a date to launch centennial celebrations this year on four continents...
...attention of the Iranian leadership was focused last week on the war with Iraq and the so-called final offensive that Iran has vowed to launch before the end of March. Two weeks ago Iranian forces attacked four Iraqi-held islands in the Shatt al Arab, the waterway that separates the southern parts of the two countries. The Iranians briefly captured the islands, but were forced to retreat after Iraq counterattacked with helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, missiles and rockets. Visiting the battlefield later, journalists saw the bodies of hundreds of Iranian soldiers on the ground or in the swampy waters...
...beginning of June. By bracketing the competition, explains Barry London, Paramount's new distribution and marketing chief, "we got the film established in the marketplace." In the same vein, Mancuso decided to release Star Trek IV at Thanksgiving, rather than Christmas, leaving the way clear for the launch of The Golden Child. Says Mancuso: "We would rather compete with the competition than with ourselves...
...Senate and House also picked the members of separate select committees that will launch Iranscam investigations when Congress convenes next month. The eleven members chosen for the Senate panel are generally cautious, low- keyed and relatively conservative. All have a background in law. The chairman: Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who served on the Senate Watergate panel 13 years ago. The ranking Republican is Warren Rudman, a former New Hampshire attorney general and one of the Senate's most independent-minded members. The 15-member House committee will be chaired by Hamilton, with Richard Cheney of Wyoming, White House chief...