Word: wing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ironically, Israel stands to gain from the tensions. The right-wing government of Yitzhak Shamir is enjoying a reprieve from pressure to join Palestinians at the bargaining table. Shamir's repeated warnings that Saddam is serious in his threats to scorch Israel with chemical weapons are now being taken seriously...
...leaders of the African National Congress argued vehemently among themselves before reaching their historic decision. But in the end, Nelson Mandela, co-founder of the movement's military wing Umkonto we Sizwe, or Spear of the Nation, overcame the objections of militants, and the A.N.C. announced that it would suspend the 29-year-old armed struggle, effective immediately...
...output to help make up the shortfall and keep prices from soaring. That would be another red flag to Saddam. In short, if an embargo is to work, the U.S. must provide credible guarantees of military protection to Saudi Arabia. Already there were proposals in Washington for dispatching a wing of U.S. fighter aircraft to Saudi bases and even perhaps a brigade (8,000) of U.S. troops...
...Islamic radical. Bakr soon became the leader of the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims. The Islamic splinter group, with few ties to the mainstream Muslims who make up 6% of the Trinidad and Tobago population of 1.3 million, espoused a potent mixture of religious fundamentalism and left-wing politics. The self-styled "Imam" traveled to Libya and was a vocal supporter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but the main interest of his armed band of militants, he said, was to rid Trinidad of drugs, corruption and poverty. He lived with most of his 300 adherents on a commune...
Lack of the usual upper-crust credentials could be a plus for George Carey, a junior English prelate from the evangelical wing who is the new Archbishop of Canterbury...