Arriving 6 days later in the midst of enemy air raids, " LST-853 " discharged men and equipment on this strategic base which lay at the gateway to Japan.
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Pisa and the maritime republic of Genoa had a keen interest in Sardinia because it was a perfect strategic base for controlling the commercial routes between Italy and North Africa.
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Mussolini's government considered the colony as a strategic base for future aggrandizement and ruled accordingly, using Eritrea as a base to launch its 1935 1936 campaign to conquer and colonize Ethiopia.
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Indian air force fighter jets Saturday intercepted a small private jetliner that had strayed over a strategic base and forced the plane to land in Bombay, police and air force officials said.
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Latvia's capital city Riga, founded in 1201 by Germans at the mouth of the Daugava, became a strategic base in a papally-sanctioned conquest of the area by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
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"By then, the Cold War was under way and the Americans wanted to keep the Azores as a strategic base, " said Jose Freire Antunes, who has written a history of the Azores.
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Regarding credit cards, Norbom noted that GE Capital is also moving ahead to launch a card through its strategic base Central Card Co Ltd in which the company recently acquired a majority stake.
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The western half of the woreda, including'Ayne, had been a strategic base for Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Movement fighters beginning in 1981, owing to its rugged topography which made it inaccessible to the central government.
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In Lebanon, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a senior Shiite Muslim cleric, railed against perceived U . S . attempts to establish a " strategic base " in Central Asia by defeating the Taliban.
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With the Korean War raging, the United States needed Okinawa as a strategic base and was struggling to win favor on the island and placate demonstrators opposed to the U . S . occupation.
