Word: retreating
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...final offensive that Iran has vowed to launch before the end of March. Two weeks ago Iranian forces attacked four Iraqi-held islands in the Shatt al Arab, the waterway that separates the southern parts of the two countries. The Iranians briefly captured the islands, but were forced to retreat after Iraq counterattacked with helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, missiles and rockets. Visiting the battlefield later, journalists saw the bodies of hundreds of Iranian soldiers on the ground or in the swampy waters to the east of the Iraqi port city of Basra. The Iraqis' claim that 32,000 Iranians were...
Kidding aside, the fine edge of courage is honed by energy, exhilaration, adventure and the promise of applause. When does a man approaching 76, with various parts of his body needing repair, begin to sag under the burden of his years, to retreat from the prospect of emotional battering...
Clearly, that problem tears at her. Aquino worries when her friends tell her that she is too honest, and laments, "I don't want to be dishonest." She frets that she can no longer afford to be humble, and she misses the freedom to retreat into her family and her privacy. "I am torn," she said just before firing Enrile, "between acting like a President and like a human being...
That unanswerable summons sent her into a soul-searching retreat (see box). By the time she emerged, she was a candidate. In order to unite the opposition forces, she swiftly approached Salvador Laurel, who was planning to lead his own ticket against Marcos, with a deal. She would give up her affiliation with her brother's party, Lakas Ng Bayan (LABAN), or People Power, if he would give up his candidacy and be her running mate. Her magic, his machine. After days of bartering, the makeshift pair finally filed their candidacy papers only 90 minutes before the midnight deadline...
Nonetheless, she went ahead the next day with a spiritual retreat, planned earlier to help her reach a decision, at a convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration just outside Manila. "I had one day free, and I wanted to spend it praying," she explained. She told her Jesuit spiritual adviser that she wanted to fast, but he urged her not to. "The nuns will be so disappointed," he said, "if they cannot offer you food." She insisted, adding that she would bring only a few crackers to keep up her strength. In the end, Cory could not refuse...