Word: lebanons
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...demand that any troops in the region should be there only under United Nations authority. We also call for an international peace conference under the auspices of the U.N. to address all the tensions and conflicts in the region, including the Palestinian question and the turmoil in Lebanon. We call on all countries and governments to stop occupation, whether it is Iraqi, Israeli or otherwise...
...alienated and silenced the voice of the majority in the Arab world." However, mass demonstrations all over the Middle East clearly indicate the strong popular Arab opposition to U.S. interventionist policies in the region and to U.S. support of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon and the Syrian Golan Heights...
Saddam probably based his opinion as much on U.S. actions over the past decade as on anything Glaspie said. He had watched the U.S. withdraw from Lebanon after its embassy and Marine barracks were truck-bombed in 1983, benefited from Washington's tilt toward Iraq in the war with Iran, and noted the relative lack of outrage against his use of chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds. He apparently concluded that he could invade Kuwait and face little more than formal protests from...
...higher education is concerned, than Asian Americans. They don't have many models in our history books." Other educators worry about judging a curriculum solely on the basis of its treatment of racial and ethnic issues. "If you take this to its logical conclusion, you get Lebanon or Northern Ireland," says Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction...
Ostrovsky's most sensational claim is that in 1983 Mossad received specific intelligence, down to the make of a Mercedes truck outfitted to carry bombs, that Shi'ite extremists in Beirut were planning a major terrorist attack. Though the U.S. forces then stationed in Lebanon were an obvious target possibility, Mossad officials only warned the U.S. in the most general terms. The attack was carried out at Marine Corps headquarters and resulted in 241 American deaths. Writes Ostrovsky: "The problem was that if we had leaked information and it was traced back, our informant would have been killed. The next...