Word: nicosia
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...NICOSIA, Cyprus--Syria has talked Iran into delaying its winter offensive against Iraq and ending attacks on Kuwait, Arab diplomatic sources said yesterday...
...NICOSIA, Cyprus--Iranian officials said yesterday that the U.S. envoys who visited Tehran last year claimed that 36 Soviet divisions were massed near the Caspian Sea, ready to sweep south across the border into Iran...
Reports of his speech were carried by the official Islamic Republic News Agency and Tehran radio and monitored in Nicosia. Iranian television showed him holding an automatic rifle, which has become his custom in Friday prayers...
...NICOSIA, Cyprus--Arab newspapers reported recent high-level contacts between Iran and the United States, and said the exchanges may have been linked to David Jacobsen's release from captivity in Lebanon...
...gunmen shouted to journalists as he was led away by police, "I am a Palestinian commando!" But in the crazy-quilt language of contemporary terrorism, that still left a lot unexplained. Early in the course of the hijacking, an anonymous Arab called a Western news agency office in Nicosia, Cyprus, and claimed responsibility for the Libyan Revolutionary Cells, a previously unknown group. Denials came almost instantaneously from Radio Tripoli and from Gaddafi, who was attending the nonaligned conference in Zimbabwe. Next, an obscure Shi'ite organization calling itself Jundullah, or Soldiers of God, announced it was responsible. Most Western intelligence...