Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When suspected right-wing commandos backed by the U.S. killed six Jesuit priests in El Salvador last month, international attention was riveted on that war-torn land, which has been buffeted by 10 years of civil conflict and a recent guerilla offensive...
Ironically, they were shepherds of peace last week, anchored in Marsaxlokk Bay. Malta is a scarred limestone fortress fought over for centuries, the gashes of German and Italian bombs still visible from the battering it took in World War II. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev searched for a way to dismantle their huge arsenals even while transported and comforted by their monstrous machines. Their task will not be easy. Everywhere one looked along this peculiar journey were reminders of how much the military structure girdles, orders and even calms the world. Anybody who tries to change it quickly had best...
Before he sat down with Gorbachev, the President pointedly gloried in the thunderous launching and recovery of F-14 Tomcat fighters on the Forrestal. Down in the carrier's hangar bay, Bush stood before the quieted planes and crews and talked about his view of war. "There's a painting in the White House, upstairs in the little office. It pictures Lincoln with two generals and an admiral meeting on a boat near the end of a war that pitted brother against brother. Outside the battle rages. And yet what we see in the distance is a rainbow, symbol...
With U.S. military help, she holds on to power. Salvadoran guerrillas declare near total war. The Palestinian uprising two years later...
...poorest country, Ethiopia faces famine again. In the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea, drought has cut crop yields 85%. The U.N. estimates that 4 million people are in danger of starving and will need emergency food aid. An international relief effort is at work, but in the civil war between the rigidly Marxist government of President Mengistu Haile Mariam and rebels from Tigre and Eritrea, denial of food is a key weapon for both sides. The main relief agencies would like to bring supplies to the insurgents across the Sudanese border instead of via government-controlled ports. But that...