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A buffer zone along the green line, set up after the Turkish invasion of Crprus in 1974 and patrolled by UNited Nations soldiers prevented the ressumption of the civil war that began in 1963.
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There is a civil war going on in El Salvador from 1980-1992
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Ronald Reagan becomes president of the United Stated. He is highly credited for the end of the Cold War.
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Sabra and Shatila massacre. Lebanese Phalangists (members of a Christian para-military group) kill up to 2,750 Palestinians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
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Hedges reported on the Militaru Junta, and how they were responsible for killing 20,000 of its own citizens duting the "Dirty War".
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The Israeli army withdraws from most of Lebanon, maintaining a self-proclaimed "security zone" in the south.
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Hedges covered the war in El Salvador. He was evacuated 3 times by the United States embassy as death squads planned to kill him.
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The cold war ends after tension between the US and USSR came to a close.
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Iraq and Kuwait conflict begins which leads to tensions between Iraq and the United States.
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Internet starts to become a widespread thing.
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The Soviot Union collapses.
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The Moorish revival library in Sorajevo was bombarded for three days by Serbian incediary bombs.
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Conflict between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims began.
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Bill Clinton is inaugurated which leads to a complete impeachment based on a moral issue.
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Zivotic visited the city 1993 to express his solitary with those besieged by Serb Forces.
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Croatian commanders, intent on wiping out what was the heart of the city, blashed the bridge for two days
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PLO and Israel agree to recognise each other.
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Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty ending 45-years of hostility. Israel agrees to recognise the special role of Jordan over Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.
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The Bosnian Serbs were required to relinquish the Serbs around Sarajevo to the Muslim led government.
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Zivotic died of a heart attack, a year before Hedges left the Balkans.
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Hedges was in a small Albanian village in kosova, twenty-five miles west of provincial capital of Pristina, waiting for a cargo truck to pick him up. He got in and saw dead corpse wrapped in rugs and blankets.
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Palestinians riot after Ariel Sharon, of the Likud party in Israel, visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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Two planes crashed into the twin towers, world trade center, as a terrorist attack in New York on september 11, 2001
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The record of Howard Russell's romantic amount was places against for Afghanistans.
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A Hamas suicide bomber attacks an Israeli nightclub. Twenty-one Israelis are killed with more than 100 injured, most being teenagers.
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The United states invades Iraq whcih leads to years of fighting.
