Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After Saddam's threat, the Israeli military command -- which is all too aware that Iraqi missiles are only five minutes from Tel Aviv -- quickly put its forces on an even higher state of alert. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We are preparing to forestall the threat, prevent it and if, heaven forbid, he does in fact attack, to retaliate...
...will cost. Building or upgrading plant and equipment, constructing roads, establishing communications networks and cleaning up industrial pollution are expected to cost more than $455 billion. This year alone, East is costing West more than $60 billion. In the long run, says Finance Minister Theo Waigel, "no one can put a figure on what is coming at us." Estimates run as high as $775 billion over ten years. Retail sales and tax revenues from the East will put some money back into federal coffers, of course, but nothing close to the outlays...
...plays American rock 'n' roll. No foreign newspapers, books or magazines are available; faxes are forbidden, and foreign travel by Iraqis has again been curtailed, as it was during the war with Iran. Still, the Deputy Foreign Minister's phone plays Home on the Range when the caller is put on hold...
...fled Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the day that Saigon fell. He made his way to Washington's "Little Saigon" and launched a caustic anti-Hanoi column for the Vietnamese-language biweekly Tien Phong. For years, he castigated the Vietnamese government for, as a colleague put it, "betraying the people...
...latest attempt to silence Vietnamese journalists. In 1980 the house of Tien Phong's publisher, Nguyen Tranh Huang, was fire bombed. Last year the magazine's layout artist, Nhan Trong Do, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his car in Virginia. Since 1981, three other journalists who put out Vietnamese publications have been killed, two in California and one in Texas...