Word: lebanons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush hailed last week's verdict as "a major victory against the drug lords," Noriega's conviction is likely to have little lasting effect on the overall war against the traffickers: cocaine producers in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, like the heroin processors in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, will no doubt continue to ply their lucrative trade...
...CHOICE for American foreign policy is clear. We can support South Africa now, helping them chart a course toward joining the club of newly democratic, economically advancing nations. Or we can sit back and watch as it deindustrializes and collapses into Lebanon-style tribal warfare, pulling the rest of southern Africa down with it. The U.S. has made an enormous investment for change in South Africa. Have we become so penny-pinching that we refuse to make the final effort to bring democracy to the nation...
...tracking them down. In the Middle East, allied bombs and U.N. sanctions have left Iraq without the means or gumption to continue sponsoring terrorists. Since the gulf war, Syrian President Hafez Assad has taken care not to antagonize the U.S. He has expelled some foreign terrorists from Syrian-controlled Lebanon and has reportedly told others that they can stay in the Bekaa Valley only on condition that they do not venture forth to hit Western targets...
...region's relentless cycle of violence continued last week when the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was destroyed by a 220-lb. car bomb. The ferocious blast killed at least 28 people and injured 235. Lebanon's Islamic Jihad terrorist group took responsibility, then later denied it. In the first message, the group said it was avenging Israel's Feb. 16 assassination of the Shi'ite fundamentalist leader Sheik Abbas Musawi, his family and bodyguards. Israel, feeling all the more victimized as a result of ! the bombing, was quick to swear vengeance of its own. "Those who carried...
...Reagan-Bush campaign team delayed the release of Iranian-held American hostages back in 1980 for political gain. The new claims -- unsubstantiated so far -- say that starting in 1986, George Bush, then Vice President, secretly visited Damascus several times to discuss possible Syrian help in freeing hostages held in Lebanon. But until his 1988 presidential campaign got under way, according to the story, he stonewalled the Syrians, playing for prime campaign timing. Republicans want to get to the bottom of intelligence- community suspicions that the U.S. somehow blew a chance to free Terry Anderson and his fellow captives because Syria...