Word: six-day
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rabin had always been a dedicated servant of the Israeli state. As a soldier, he first gained experience and fame during Israel's fight for independence in the 1940s; he later became the heroic leader of Israel's military successes against its hostile neighbors in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967. But as a politician, Rabin became a staunch advocate of peace with the Palestinian people, eschewing violent conflict...
...Palestinian rule to almost a third of the West Bank, providing for Palestinian elections and laying the foundation for what could become a Palestinian state. The two leaders signed an intricately worded 400-page document that outlines the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from territory seized in the 1967 Six-Day War and transfers governing authority to Palestinians for most of their population in the West Bank. A last-minute dispute over the timing of Israeli troops' withdrawal from Hebron was resolved when Rabin and Arafat stepped in to President Clinton's private dining room to work things out; their...
...six-day conference, sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and the Institute of Politics, brings together students and successful women from the fields of business, media, politics and public service for a series of panel discussions and hands-on workships...
...Americans, the Bataan death march was the most infamous example of Japanese cruelty. American and Filipino prisoners from the fall of Corregidor in 1942 were refused food and water on a six-day, 97-km forced march to their place of confinement at Camp O'Donnell. Fingers were chopped off to get at West Point rings; decapitated bodies lined the road; by one estimate, there was a body every 10 or 15 paces. The death toll: more than...
About 4,000 more Muslim men among at least 15,000 thought to have been captured in the fall of Srebrenica reached friendly territory in Tuzla after eluding rebel Serbs on a hazardous six-day, 60-mile trek through forests and over mountains. (A Bosnian army spokesman said some received help from the special army units.) "It was a desperate run, but we knew we would be killed or worse, otherwise," Azem Alkanovic, a 38-year-old policeman, told the Associated Press. "There were dozens and dozens of dead bodies on my trail. If you found a wounded...