Word: pursuits
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...chased after them, through the Yard," Paik said. He called 911 as he was running after them, and tried to get bystanders to participate in the pursuit...
...terms of Iran's arms (inaudible) into Iraq, the President makes a very forceful statement, says have you - are we to read from this that the U.S. would engage in cross border hot pursuit of people bringing in arms or insurgent elements into Iraq...
...would not rule out the possibility that U.S. troops might cross the Iraq border into Iran in pursuit of Iranians suspected of moving weapons to Iraqi militias. But she said she trusts the expertise of Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who believes that the Iranian arms networks can be broken up with intelligence and interdiction inside Iraq...
...military pursuit of "high-value" Qaeda targets in Somalia, where three key operatives accused of carrying out the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are believed to hiding, is made easier by the fact that a central state authority has scarcely existed in the East African nation for more than a decade. "It's one of those places where even the State Department, which is usually very cautious about us acting, in this case, said, hey, go ahead," said the Pentagon official. The three al-Qaeda operatives were the target of the gunship raid in southern Somalia...
...Ford's pursuit of the Nixon-Kissinger policy of d?tente drew criticism from the Republican right, particularly from California Governor Ronald Reagan, who argued that that approach to the U.S.S.R. conceded its continued existence. It was another irony of Ford's tenure that his lifelong conservative credentials came to be challenged by his allies...