Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the reference to the mother fishing out one child by the heel, then placing him back in the river. But eventually it will all spill together-milk, gasoline and water. Two days hence will find the Syrians saying something and the Soviets saying something and Asia will be overrun by the Cabbage Patch dolls. Why does it feel necessary to grasp this information? All the music and poetry in the world, and the mind hungers for news of the Interior Minister of Nicaragua...
...When reporters asked him about his bandaged hand, he said that he had injured it slightly when he fell down some steps. But despite the brave performance, the P.L.O. chairman's prospects were dour indeed. Baddawi, the last of the Palestinian refugee camps loyal to Arafat, had been overrun by P.L.O. rebels backed by Syrian troops, tanks and artillery; the end of Arafat's long rule as head of a more or less united P.L.O. was at hand...
...gains of the Russian Revolutions (a planned economy and collectivized property) remain and must be defeated. Without the aid of the USSR. Cuba would have been reduced to irradiated rubble over 20 years ago; without Soviet arms and Cuban troops the Black nationalist regime in Angola would have been overrun by South Africa's racist army: and today the Red Army in Afghanistan is the one hope Afghan women have for emancipation from illiteracy, the bride price and enslavement to feudal tribesmen. It is unfortunately not true that Cuba and the USSR are supplying Salvadoran leftists and Nicaraguan Sandinistas with...
...world's fragmented little nations, Lebanon is one of the most perplexing. Once the home of the Phoenicians, it has been overrun at various times by Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, European Crusaders and Ottoman Turks. In 1932, when Lebanon was a French mandate, France conducted a national census that showed the Christians with a slight majority. When Lebanon became independent in 1943, followed by the evacuation of French troops three years later, the preponderance of political power was apportioned between Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims on the basis of the 1932 head count, with a minimal share...
Clark sided with the worriers, and Pentagon planners, led by Iklé, successfully argued for a show of U.S. force to give the Nicaraguans pause and reassure the Hondurans and Costa Ricans that the U.S. would not let them be overrun. To that end, the Pentagon revved up planning that had begun as early as last February for naval and military maneuvers. The Defense Department last spring had won approval in principle from all agencies involved in Central American policy that maneuvers should be conducted, but had not specified how big or how long they would...