Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this were not bad enough, Syria's campaign to achieve national unity in Lebanon, a goal the U. S. supports, is also being challenged by Iraq, which is determined to exact revenge against Assad for his support of Iran during the gulf war. Syria claims that Iraq is already funneling money and arms to, of all people, the Lebanese Forces, thereby encouraging the right- wing Christians in their resistance to Assad's reforms...
...There will be new talks, and eventually they will succeed. Whether it is strikes or war, even the biggest battles in history have ended sitting down at a table. What is better -- to be a boxing champion or a chess champion? I prefer chess. And I don't have any doubt that eventually we will...
Sudan has more problems besides fickle weather. For five years, the government of Africa's largest country (more than three times the size of Texas) has been paralyzed by a bloody civil war against secessionist guerrillas in the south. Since 1986, Sudan has been ineligible for loans from the International Monetary Fund because of an inability to service its $12 billion debt. In April, Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi's failure to deal with the country's accumulating crises brought down his second government in two years. As if all those woes were not enough, a plague of locusts...
Perhaps the most intractable of the country's troubles is the war in the south, pitting the local African population, largely Christian and animist, against the predominantly Arab Muslim government of the north. Former President Gaafar Nimeiri, who was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1985, aggravated the existing religious and racial differences by imposing a set of harsh Islamic laws that call for floggings and amputations for criminal offenses even by non-Muslims. Abolition of the laws is a key demand of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army, whose antigovernment rebels control much of the rural south...
...coalition. Early this month, the Sudanese Cabinet approved a new and stricter code of Islamic law, or Shari'a, but it has yet to be passed in parliament. In the meantime, the fighting has forced at least 500,000 southerners to flee to Khartoum. Each side in the civil war has accused the other of manipulating food shipments to famine victims as a weapon to gain support in the conflict. A Christian member of parliament complained that even after the floods "food was distributed in the mosques while those who complained were left standing in the water...