Word: soils
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...while the Soviets refused to acknowledge the genocide on their soil, the massacre was a terrifying addition to the history of the Holocaust as recognized by the West. In 1961, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem to memorialize those who died at Babi Yar. Family members of the victims kept their pictures, and last week they were finally able to mourn at the grave of their relatives...
BUSH'S DECISION TO remove battlefield nuclear weapons from Western Europe makes sense. For a long time, those weapons have caused friction between the U.S. and allied countries who do not want missiles on their soil and nuclear-armed ships in their ports. The large numbers and decentralized operation of tactical nukes create the risk of accidental firings and terrorist strikes...
...round in this fitful contest was being played, a few Iraqi citizens talked as defiantly as they had before the war. During a week's visit to Iraq, photographer Les Stone was told that Iraq would always need a strongman like Saddam, if only to keep foreigners off its soil. "I'd fight the Americans again if they came," said a hotel worker in Baghdad...
...think this experiment that was conducted on our soil was a tragedy for our people," said Yeltsin...
...codes -- was in the hands of the junta, raising concerns that its leaders might, in desperation, do something rash. And now, with at least the partial breakup of the U.S.S.R. a certainty, fears are growing that some of the seceding republics may insist that the weapons remain on their soil, in effect creating a new nuclear power with every declaration of independence. Wondered French government spokesman Jack Lang last week: "Will every republic have at its disposal a little atomic bomb, some of them equivalent to one or two Hiroshimas...