Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a beautiful symbol of the growing cooperation between what can no longer be called the two [military] blocks but let's say East and West," said Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens, whose government was instrumental in arranging the visit...
...student stated that her organization, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, will "challenge the extent to which Mobutu is qualified to speak on peace and progress." On numerous occasions, President Mobutu has proven his ability as a peacemaker. After five years of civil war following the independence of the "Belgian-Congo," he united the country under the banner of the M.P.R. in 1965, giving the citizens of Zaire peace and stability for over two decades. In 1983, the President sent Zairian troops to Chad in order to assist the Chadians in their battle against the Libyan army. Recently, President Mobutu...
Zaire is an artificial political entity. Its borders were decided arbitrarily on some Belgian map a century ago. Within those borders are over 250 potentially warlike tribes...
...next day; another major, who was getting too old for active duty, offered to fly him there so that he could log some more cockpit time for himself. The two set off in a new Messerschmitt scout plane, got lost in the clouds and crash-landed in Belgium. The Belgian authorities thus found themselves in possession of the entire German invasion plan -- but could not be certain that this was not all a German trick. Conversely, Hitler soon learned that the Allies knew of his plans -- but the furious dictator could not be certain whether they knew what they...
...bristled with antitank guns, machine guns and barbed wire, and boasted concrete walls 10 ft. thick as well as supply depots 100 ft. underground. To the north of the Ardennes Forest, which was only lightly fortified because the French considered it "impenetrable," a "Little Maginot Line" guarded the Franco-Belgian border, but the French planned to march into neutral Belgium themselves at the first sign of a German invasion...