Word: towing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under North's deadline pressure, Hakim worked out a nine-point plan that included a promise that the U.S. would deliver 500 TOW missiles to the Iranians and pursue the release of 17 Shi'ite Muslim terrorists being held in Kuwait in return for one or two American captives. Hakim, following Secord's recommendations, went as far as to commit the U.S. to fighting the Soviets if they invaded Iran, and he pledged U.S. assistance in efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Secord and North approved Hakim's arrangement. Four days before the election, Hostage David Jacobsen was freed...
...pair of singles...Harvard will host Boston College tomorrow at Soldier's Field...last season the Crimson lost two heartbreakers, 3-2, 2-1, to the Eagles...Faces in the crowd: outgoing women's basketball assistant Coach Beth Wheatley Doran with Coach Kathy Delaney Smith's infant son in tow...
...dozen immobilized Iraqi tanks rest beside the highway, some with gaping holes in their armor, others mere burned-out hulks. The ruined tanks are a powerful reminder of U.S. arms sales to Iran. Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz attributes his country's equipment losses largely to American shipments of TOW antitank and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Tehran...
BOOKS PUBLISHED before 1800 are not supposed to circulate, my thesis adviser told me. And I immediately brought the volume back to the Library--half in guilty panic that President Bok would appear at my door with the Ad Board in tow, half in fear of breaking some sort of magical spell. Would an 18th Century book vaporize if left out in 20th Century...
...talent for military logistics and his naivete about geopolitics. For a month North had planes, missiles and money hopscotching all over the globe to deliver weapons to supposedly moderate elements in Iran in order to bring about the release of the American hostages. Although Iran received 1,000 TOW antitank missiles as a result of his efforts, no Americans were freed...