Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent bloody example of the impotence of force in diplomacy is the present situation in Lebanon. For the first time in its history Israel began a primarily offensive war with the twin hopes of ending Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) killings of its citizens in the Galilee and evicting Syria from Lebanon. The outcome has been 500 Israeli soldiers dead, a toll far higher than any conceivable PLO infliction, and Syria's further entrenchment in Lebanon...
Throughout the tour, the liberal senator, considered to be third behind former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) in an eight-man field, echoed the twin themes of his campaign; stopping the arms race and eliminating unemployment...
...Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, former Harvard Club President Rod Hardy '60 says interest in The Game has been "absolutely amazing...
...Harappa, a millionaire playboy. The death struggle that ensues between these two characters is shimmeringly based on recent Pakistani history. Iskander resembles Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the charismatic civilian leader who was deposed in 1977 and later executed by General Ziaul-Haq, Pakistan's current President and a fraternal twin of the fictional Raza Hyder. Similarly, the bloody civil war that led to the transformation of East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971 is mirrored here: "The final defeat of the western forces, which led to the reconstitution of the East Wing nation as and an international autonomous basket (that...
Weinberger said that there was "a lot of circumstantial evidence, and a lot of it points to Iran." Sunday's twin attacks against the U.S. and French forces were, just like the U.S. embassy bombing, carefully coordinated kamikaze missions. But the strongest indication that an Iran-backed radical Shi'ite group was involved derived from the fact that the French contingent was struck at the same time as the Marines. In recent months France has become one of Khomeini's most hated countries, partly because it granted asylum to former Iranian President Bani Sadr and other Iranian dissidents, and partly...