Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that point first; sometimes their leaders do. Popular sentiment for an accommodation between Israel and the Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with...
...Mogadishu, apparently killing or wounding more than 100 people, including women and children. U.N. peacekeeping officials insisted the shooting was a last resort to save the lives of U.N. troops who were being attacked. The attackers on the ground, supporters of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two more and also wounded two Americans. The U.S. Senate, increasingly concerned about the situation, passed a resolution urging that the President seek congressional approval if he wants to keep the troops there beyond...
Twice in my life, in 1967 and again in 1973, I saw the face of war as a reservist soldier, first in Sinai and then in the Golan Heights. That experience turned me into a peace activist, but not into a pacifist ready to turn the other cheek to an enemy. If anyone tries to take my life or the life of my people, I will fight. I will fight if anyone tries to enslave us, but nothing short of the defense of life and freedom could make me take up arms. "National interest," "ancestral rights" and an extra bedroom...
...last Russian soldier has left Lithuania. Talks on the final departure were suspended two weeks ago amid rumors that Lithuanian negotiators were demanding up to $146 billion in reparations for their country's annexation by the Soviet Union 53 years ago. Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas has agreed to postpone the compensation discussions...
...region's reputation as a haven has also led it to harbor right-wing cliques and go-it-alone extremists. The mercenary periodical Soldier of Fortune is published in Boulder. And such rural backwaters as Hayden Lake, Idaho, are headquarters to sundry survivalists, skinheads and supremacist groups like the White Aryan Nation...