Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to imagine places that could become the Sarajevo of the nuclear age: Eastern Europe, where armed resistance to Soviet occupation could spread; Iran, where the U.S.S.R. might be tempted to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Khomeini's rule; the Arabian Peninsula, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force and Soviet airborne units could fight over the oilfields; the Caribbean Basin, where even last week Washington believed Brezhnev was hinting at the possibility of another Cuban missile crisis...
...orange berets and somber brown camouflage uniforms, the 676 members of the 82nd Airborne Division bounded down the ramps of the two blue-and-white El Al jumbo jets. After a 14-hr, flight from Fort Bragg, N.C., they were emerging into the 80° temperature of the Sinai Peninsula-and spearheading a new role for the U.S. in the Middle East. There was a brief delay when it was discovered that the soldiers, like careless tourists, had forgotten to fill out Israeli immigration cards. Finally, clutching their M-16 rifles, the men set off on a nine-mile march...
...post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa...
Haig in private was often more pessimistic about world problems than in public. He warned his staff in January that once Israel returns the rest of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in April, "Egypt will go back into [the] Arab world, with [the] U.S. isolated as Israel's sole defender." Egypt's position, he said, is "180° different" under Hosni Mubarak than it had been under slain President Anwar Sadat...
...keep both parts of that pledge and lead his country on a course of national unity. He has repeatedly stated that Egypt remains committed to the terms of the Camp David peace treaty, both before and after Israel's return of the last part of the Sinai peninsula on April 25. Says an Egyptian editor: "Mubarak has made peace the policy of Egypt, not just the policy of Sadat." At the same time, the President has promised to chart a new economic future for the country, with his own government acting as an example of austerity. Officials last week...