Word: martyrdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reflag and escort Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf, Iran announced with great fanfare that it would stage four days of war games in the Strait of Hormuz, the entryway to the gulf. In case there was any doubt about the intent of the maneuvers, they were code-named "Martyrdom." One of the reflagged ships, the fully loaded Gas Prince, slipped quietly out of harm's way and toward its destination in Japan before the exercises began. But the supertanker Bridgeton, damaged last month by a mine that may have been planted by the Iranians, remained in Kuwait. Meanwhile, Washington found...
...support arises not from organized political muscle--as it did for her deposed predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos--but from personal charisma. After the martyrdom of her husband, former Senator Benigno Aquino, her political innocence became her strong card in the presidential race against the incumbent Marcos and his perceived cynical machinations...
...vain. My definition of "dying in vain" includes being killed in your bed without knowing you are in danger and without firing a shot. In the future, whenever the U.S. undertakes a mission into a hostile area, the Government should plan for the inevitable risks. Let's leave senseless martyrdom to others...
...fighting continued, the big losers were clearly the Syrians. Damascushas 30,000 soldiers in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Initial pleas by the Damascus government for a cease-fire were ignored. At one point, Amal Leader Nabih Berri ordered his men to "stand fast. Fight until victory or martyrdom...
...symbol of the peasants' martyrdom was provided by a Christian Science Monitor correspondent who visited the Ukraine in 1933. On the road he noticed that an icon, hung in the traditional way at the entrance of a village, had been disfigured. The face of Christ had been obliterated; only the crown of thorns remained. The image may stand for all the innocents who perished on the Soviet land. Now, 50 years after they were effaced from memory, Conquest has succeeded in restoring their human faces...