Word: marshlands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assaults and adopted a more conventional deployment of armor and artillery to confront the Iraqis. The Iranian forces pushed eleven miles inside Iraqi territory before they were stopped by a ferocious counterattack near the strategic Iraqi port of Basra. For the spoils of a few miles of sun-baked marshland, some 2,000 Iranians lost their lives. Iraq now says that more than 21,000 Iranian troops have been killed in the abortive drive on Basra, while Iraqi casualties, though not publicized, are estimated to be 5,000 dead and wounded...
...childlike and slow-witted." Because "the color of their skin set them apart from all other members of the community, they gathered in tight districts in Cambridgeport," Sutton reports. Those who could afford good homes lived by Howard St.; more commonly, their residences were rickety old shacks on former marshland by the Charles...