Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For the fifth time in three weeks, tens of thousands of Iranian soldiers launched a furious offensive against Iraqi forces entrenched near the Shatt al Arab waterway. Many of the Iranian troops, according to Iraqi officials, went into battle carrying a plastic key that the ayatullahs had told them was...
Under the cover of darkness last Wednesday night, the invading Iranian forces of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini launched a large-scale artillery barrage that lit the eastern sky. Tanks rushed forward in long columns, flanked on either side by Iranian Revolutionary Guards carrying rifles with fixed bayonets. Thus resumed the...
Because tens of thousands of rank-and-file members turned in their cards after the crackdown, party cells have ceased to function in many places.
By far the most rapidly growing health expense is the price of a hospital stay, which currently averages more than $250 a day, vs. only $133 in 1975. Part of the rise reflects the escalating cost of constructing new buildings. But equipping the complexes with such state-of-the-art...
These are some of the political issues that make both military successes difficult to savor. There are other troubling elements?more abstract, but just as real. One is simply the exasperation always felt at watching diplomacy devolve to bloodshed. Another is the childish reactions that events like these inevitably bring...