Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first stage, as planned, Talabani's 10,000 troops launched an opening skirmish against the Iraqi army's 5th Corps along the Kurdish border near Kirkuk. Barzani, who has a force of equal strength, refused to get involved in the coup. Shi'ite insurgents next failed to undertake their strike against Iraqi forces in the southern part of the country, and an Iraqi armored division that was to mutiny and march on Baghdad decided to sit it out. "It was the coup that never was," said a U.S. intelligence official...
...that Washington has succeeded in keeping the sanctions in place for the time being, hard-liners in Saddam's inner circle are urging him to strike against the weakened Kurds. Even the Kurdish people are becoming frustrated with their leaders. "This is the worst time in our history, because it is Kurd killing Kurd," says Shazad Saib, a Talabani representative in Ankara. "We are destroying our newly found homeland." A Kurdish poem laments: "Red roses are the blood of brother slain by brother. When will the mountain rose no longer smell of my brother's blood?" Perhaps never...
...this any way to strike a billion-dollar trade deal? For four years the Conoco company had been negotiating to develop two huge offshore oil fields in Iran, but the deal's managers kept only low-level State Department officials informed of the broad nature of the talks. As a result, just after Conoco and the Iranians reached their agreement this month--but before the Houston-based company had sought approval from senior U.S. officials or board members of DuPont, its corporate parent--the contract flared into a political and diplomatic incident as unwelcome to Conoco as a fire...
Harbury, who graduated from the Law School in 1978, staged a 32-day hunger strike last year in Guatemala City to call attention to her husband's disappearance...
...responsible for that." At the same time, though, McCurry said the White House had no evidence at this point thatCIA or other agency officialshad withheld information on the murders. The victims were an American innkeeper and a Guatemalan guerilla whose American wife, Jennifer Harbury, ended a 12-day hunger strike outside the White House Thursday night...