Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dressed in a traditional white shawl, tunic and pants, the prime minister said she came to Washington to begin "discussions of a new relationship" as both nations work to meet the "new challenges [that] confront us in the closing but complex phase of the Afghan...
...rhetoric, not guns and bayonets. Some officers rebelled against what they felt was the ambiguity of their position. In Wuhan district, the military commander, General Chen Zaidao, was ordered to support the local Red Guard faction. He refused and seized as hostages three party officials who were sent to confront him. Premier Zhou Enlai had to negotiate their release...
...typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports now, and the Los Angeles Rams will confront the San Francisco 49ers there in August...
When she was elected to power last year, many wondered whether Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would dare confront the nation's military establishment. Last week she did so, ordering the transfer of Hamid Gul, 52, the powerful head of the ISI, Pakistan's military-intelligenc e agency. A protege of the late President Zia ul-Haq, Gul has wielded enormous power ever since his appointment in 1987. Besides keeping tabs on Zia's political foes, including the Bhutto family, the ISI also distributed foreign money and arms to the mujahedin rebels fighting the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime in Afghanistan...
...worst oil spill in U.S. history, Exxon Chairman Lawrence Rawl made himself scarce. He waited almost a week before he publicly commented on the disaster, and it was more than two weeks before he ventured to Valdez. Last week, at Exxon's shareholder meeting, Rawl was forced to confront -- personally and directly -- a very angry public...