Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aidid supporters. But as they tried to lead the prisoners away, the streets erupted with gunfire. Somali fighters from all over Mogadishu ran to join the action; in the Bakhara market near the hotel, they set up barricades of burning tires and anything else flammable to block the Rangers' retreat. Rescue helicopters could not land in the narrow streets; the only way out was by ground. From that point on, Ranger Major David Stockwell, the U.N. military spokesman, said, "it sounded like the air was filled with angry hornets. The buzz and crack of small-arms fire was all around...
...Yeltsin. He had tried during the past 18 months of struggle with conservative lawmakers to abide by Russia's Soviet-era constitution while he pushed the go-slow parliament to adopt free-market changes. At times he came perilously close to overstepping the law. But he always beat a retreat, fearing that any challenge to the lawful order might destroy the state...
...past. She also notes in all three faiths a surging counterrevolutionary fundamentalism that to her represents a problem rather than a solution: its proponents "use 'God' to prop up their own loves and hates." In short, this kind of religiosity is simply a new idolatry and thus represents a retreat from...
...surrender progress because of the ambitions of one warlord would be a monumental defeat. The precedent that such a retreat would leave behind would haunt us for years to come. Gunmen around the world would know that if they target Americans for long enough, retreat is likely. In the coming years, American soldiers will be in places just as dangerous as Somalia. Are we going to send that precedent with them...
...Israel-P.L.O. peace accord is merely a tactical retreat by a P.L.O. that retains the maximalist goal of destroying Israel -- then the accord will fail. As soon as the veil is dropped, the war resumes...