Word: musa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teacher Musa Eubanks will speak and present a slide show about his three trips to Africa, one of which lasted for more than a year, at the Community Church Center in Copley Square...
...state who was exiled after the coup that brought Murtala to power last July. Gowon, according to the government's charge, instructed Dimka to get together with Defense Minister Bisalla and attempt to overthrow the government. Their reasons for acting, said Nigeria's new defense chief, Brigadier Musa Yarduah, was the government's plan to cut the size of the army by almost half, a move that would transfer the 100,000 soldiers affected to other jobs, but which might leave a number of them out of work...
...handful of people remaining in Damur stood in a bedraggled group near a church-quiet, anxious, clinging to their few belongings, which they had wrapped in small rugs. The leftists' commander, Abu Musa-a polite, unshaven Fatah officer-charged that Lebanese army commandos had helped defend the town, even though the army is supposed to be neutral. He gave the civilians the choice of staying or leaving for Christian-held areas; they chose to leave. Except for medicine and bare necessities, they were not allowed to take anything with them. Militiamen loaded furniture, household goods, washing machines and stereo...
Since the British pulled out of the Persian Gulf in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has engaged in an expansionary policy aimed at filling the power vacuum. His troops have occupied the Persian Gulf islands of Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, which-despite their comic-opera names-guard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 120 tankers a day carry a little more than half the oil consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris...
...drove on to 'Uyun Musa, a lonely spot on the Gulf of Suez where Moses was supposed to have found water by striking a rock; now it was the site of the last fully intact fortification of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line. The 400 Egyptian troops manning it gave their visitors a rousing welcome. Standing on the ruined Israeli guns, they clapped hands, beat leather drums, danced and sang. "We destroyed their fortifications," one improvised song boasted. "The Israelis fled 'Uyun Musa. We destroyed them...