Word: seizinger
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The Iraqi war plan apparently hinged on seizing enough Iranian territory in an initial strike to use as a bargaining chip in its efforts to regain sovereignty over the Shatt al Arab, which it had agreed to share with Iran in a 1975 agreement with the Shah. Perhaps for that...
As expected, Evren announced that his government would honor Turkey's commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The pledge was welcomed by Western strategists because Turkey, with the largest standing army in Europe, is the vital defender of NATO'S southeastern flank and shares a 350-mile...
In the summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps has punched to within 15 miles of Alexandria. The Germans are now only a Heil away from British-ruled Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Allies' strategic lifeline to the Middle East and Asia. Though outnumbered and outgunned by...
Since seizing power in 1976, Videla's regime has abducted over 15,000 persons, according to Amnesty International. Other human rights groups estimate that 30,000 have been missing since 1970. Their crime? "Agitating" against the government. Some of these victims have actually organized against Videla--have actually bombed government...
Trifa first came to the U.S. from Italy in 1950. Two years later, he led anti-Communist Rumanians in seizing control of their church headquarters from a rival group loyal to the Orthodox patriarchate in Rumania. Meanwhile Charles Kremer, a Rumanian-American dentist in New York City and a Jew...