Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Libyan prisoners released by Deby, some of whom had been jailed since 1982, and to unload "humanitarian supplies," including a Renault luxury sedan, apparently a gift to Deby from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Deby defended freeing the Libyans as a move to help maintain good relations with Chad's northern neighbor. However, the prisoner release, along with reports that Libya provided at least 40% of the equipment for Deby's army, stirred fears that Gaddafi is poised to use Chad as a base to project his influence throughout the region...
...When the price of oil quadrupled in 1974, we didn't go to war," she asserts. She also refutes the thesis offered in the book that Saddam invaded Kuwait to gain greater access to the Persian Gulf. If that was his motive, she argues, he would have just taken Northern Kuwait. That would have created a different scenario...
...Saddam had just taken northern Kuwait," Mylroie projects, "nobody would have done anything...
...emerged with a key road victory. Palmer has taken his talent (and, more importantly, his height) to the Utah Jazz of the NBA. But Dartmouth fans are Dartmouth fans (and, more importantly, not Harvard fans) and they'll be back Saturday, hoping to continue Harvard's woes against its Northern rival...
...which is fissionable, from the 97% of uranium 238, which is not. Iraq is known to possess 250 tons of yellowcake, most of it purchased in the 1970s from Brazil, China and Niger. In recent years the country has also begun producing its own yellowcake from mines in northern Iraq...