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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942. Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide started to shift for Allied forces. On April 18, 1942, Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle staged a daring aerial raid on Tokyo. Last week surviving raiders gathered in Columbia, S.C., for an annual tribute to the six Americans who died as a result of the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anniversaries | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...Camp David was the zenith of his career, his ineptness in economic policy nearly proved his undoing. By 1981 the Likud trailed in the polls. Just three weeks before elections, Begin ordered the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor. The raid, which helped the Likud eke out a narrow victory, signaled a newly aggressive Israeli military policy. On June 6, 1982, army tanks rolled into Lebanon. The country paid a high price: more than 600 of its soldiers died, and 3,000 were wounded. There were also psychological scars after Israel permitted Christian Phalangist militiamen to enter the Palestinian refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Fighter, First and Last: Menachem Begin (1913-1992) | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

Although the assassination was planned for months, the timing proved especially appealing. The raid on the Israeli army camp two days earlier was carried out most probably by Palestinians, not Lebanese Shi'ites, but it provided the guise of a provocation. The easy infiltration of the army camp humiliated the military and spurred it to demonstrate its competence. Since the U.S. hostages once held by Hizballah were free, there was little concern about a serious outcry from Washington. (Beyond deploring the "rising cycle of violence," the U.S. State Department warned of the increased danger of terrorist attacks against Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vengeance Is Mine | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan, naturally, had the best instincts for how Hollywood would handle these things. He staged a dogfight with Muammar Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra in 1981. Five years later, Reagan wowed the world with Thirty Seconds over Tripoli. That raid was nothing less than an assassination attempt, in the same spirit as the cloak-and-dagger boys' dreams of using exploding cigars and Mafia hit men to finish off Castro in the 1960s. Much was made of how U.S. bombers taught Libya a lesson for its sponsorship of terrorism. Maybe so, but they missed their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: High Noon Minus the Shoot-Out | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...CRYSTAL CLARITY OF WATER: KOREAN CERAMICS FROM THE ATAKA COLLECTION, The Art Institute of Chicago. Korean artisans might have initially borrowed pottery techniques from the Chinese, but their subsequent creations rivaled those of their giant neighbor and became the envy of Japan, which dispatched military expeditions to raid Korean kilns and enslave its craftsmen. On display are 114 elegant and serenely beautiful objects including vases, ewers, incense burners and porcelain water droppers. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 23, 1991 | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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