Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran and Iraq have little to be proud of in their conduct of the 42-month-old war in the Persian Gulf. Iraq shoulders the blame for starting it all, invading Iran in a reckless attempt to seize some long-disputed border territory from the new and untried revolutionary government...
In his speech last week, Khomeini urged his troops not to return home to celebrate the Iranian new year, which begins on March 21. This could have been a tacit admission that large numbers of "volunteers" have refused to participate in human-wave attacks and are taking any opportunity to...
Saddam Hussein has every reason to be worried. Five years after the revolution that toppled the Shah Ayatullah Khomeini's theocratic regime has consolidated its power at home, settled most of its international debts and demonstrated that it is willing to hurl a virtually limitless number of young volunteers...
The symposium was initiated and chaired by Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Herbert C. Kelman, who has been working in this field for the last decade. From Israel came a delegation of Knesset (Parliament) members from the Alignment (the Labor and Mapam parties) and from the Shinui party--both of...
Tens of thousands of Filipinos wildly cheered and showered confetti on some 2,500 joggers as they arrived in Manila last week. The joggers, led by Agapito Aquino, 45, younger brother of murdered Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., had set out five days earlier on a 90-mile protest run...