Word: unionism
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Chalabi and the other exile leaders want arms and real military training from Washington now. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.) and the other Kurdish faction in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P.), say they have 80,000 lightly armed fighters, while the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq claims a force of 20,000 Shi'ite soldiers who have been launching raids in the south. Chalabi wants to train about 500 exile intelligence operatives, who would first infiltrate Iraq. They would be followed by 5,000 U.S.-trained Iraqi guerrillas, who would seize territory under...
...Union Side The AFL-CIO, anti-sweatshop groups and at least one U.S. textile firm...
Then there are the biological weapons. The 20th century saw the creation of great weapons based on the principles of nuclear physics; the 21st century will see great weapons based on the knowledge of DNA and the genetic code. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union used rudimentary genetic engineering to create incurable strains of Black Death (bubonic plague) that were resistant to drugs. This biotech Black Death was loaded into missile warheads aimed at the U.S. As biotechnology becomes more supple and powerful and as the genetic code of more organisms is unraveled, biologists will learn how to mix genes...
Papandreou--who spent a year at Harvard in 1992-1993 as a fellow for the Center for International Affairs--says Greece would actively support Turkey's candidacy for membership in the European Union, and has been happy with bilateral relations since both nations have been stricken by earthquakes during the past few months...
...altercation started when Chris Gahan, a third floor proctor in the Union residence, and his girlfriend pulled up outside Hurlbut Hall in a car, witnesses said...