Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Honduras was forced to give the lie to its own claims. Just last month the Hondurans were compelled by Washington to request assistance to halt a Sandinista cross-border attack aimed at the contra camps, then watched dismally as 3,200 U.S. troops rushed into the country. Says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa: "Honduras has always been a means...
...great star early drooped in the western sky in the night...
...screens and computer terminals. Investors, who for the most part had been expecting a continued improvement in the trade balance, were stunned to see that the February deficit was $13.8 billion, an increase of 11% from the $12.4 billion shortfall recorded in January. Within minutes, currency traders in Western Europe drove the value of the dollar down by about 2% against both the West German mark and the Japanese...
...there are some exceptions. The Western countries decided not to negotiate with Hitler. For us Arafat is like Hitler. He wants to see every one of us dead...
...Kuwait the daily Al-Qabas said the incident was believed to have been masterminded by Imad Mughniyen, 36, a Lebanese who is both cousin and brother- in-law to one of the 17 jailed terrorists. Western intelligence agencies believe Mughniyen has led several attempts to free the prisoners. Among them: at least two other hijackings, including the seizure of TWA Flight 847 in 1985, during which U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem was beaten and shot to death. The kidnapers holding many of the more than 20 Western hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans, have also made release of the prisoners...