Word: persian
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...subject caused his star to fall, and he left the Administration in 1987, flirting with the idea of running his own insurrectionary campaign for the White House. He got into hot water again with Jewish groups in 1990 after he questioned President Bush's motives in the Persian Gulf War. "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East--the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States...
...plane is underpowered, and the main wing provides a lot of lift, but is very long in relation to the length of the fuselage. The performance envelope is just very narrow; its an unforgiving airplane." This most recent crash of the multi-million dollar airplane occurred in the Persian Gulf early Thursday, and caused no loss of life. Last Sunday another F-14 splashed down into the Pacific about 120 miles from southern California, killing its two crew, and on January 29, an F-14 augured into a residential neighborhood in Nashville after takeoff, killing the crew and three people...
MANAMA, BAHRAIN: A bomb blast ripped through the lobby of the Diplomat Hotel in the capital of this small Persian Gulf nation on Sunday evening, injuring at least 4 people. The Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, a radical Shiite group claimed responsibility for the bombing and threatened more attacks after the holy days of Ramadan end next week. Bahrani officials accused the Shiite Iranian government of sponsoring the bombing and encouraging terrorism, but the Iranians denied the charge. The attack is part of the Front's campaign against the Al Khalifa royal family which represents the emirate...
Toloui said the committee also asked about his favorite piece of art-work (Picasso's "Guernica") and his favorite ancient Persian king (Xerxes, because of his "clever politics during the Peloponnesian...
...issue and the argument. When officials of the Truman Administration suggested in 1950 that South Korea was not a vital interest, North Korea attacked. It is diplomatic code for an interest a country will go to war over. When President Jimmy Carter declared in 1980 that the Persian Gulf was a "vital interest," he was correctly understood to mean the U.S. would go to war to maintain its access to gulf...