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Semester 1 Final Flashcards

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Mohamed Morsey

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Egypt’s First Pres. Muslim Brotherhood

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Hosni Mubarak

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Former Egyptian President, 30 yrs, ousted in the Arab Spring

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Paolo Gabriele

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Pope Benedict’s butler that stole document from his apartment.

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Replacement for Pope John II, first pope to has twitter.

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Free Syrian Army

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Rebel army in Syria

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Aleppo

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Syrian city, the center of revolution there.

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Sandra Aita Beltran

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Mexican drug lord, extradited to the US, beauty

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Francois Hollande

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trying to fix debt crisis in France

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Nicolas Sarkozy

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Fmr. French Pres. voted out of office for the debt crisis

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Paul Ryan

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Romney’s running mate, author of the House Budget Plan refered as the Ryan Plan.

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CDC

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Center for Disease Control, located in Atlanta GE

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ANC

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African Nation Congress, ruling party in South Africa

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Julian Assange

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Founder of WikiLeaks, wanted for sexual-assault in Swedn, seeking asylum in Equador.

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Senkaku

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Jap. name for the natural gas island

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Diaoyu

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Chinese name for the natural gas island chain

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Mitt Romney

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Founder of Bain Capital, Pres. candidate 2012

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Bain Capital

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Founded by Mitt Romney in 1948, private equity company

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NAM

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None Align Movement, Cold War-era movement seeking pathways away from both Russian and the US.

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Ander Behring Brelvik

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Killed 77 people, sentence for 21 years of prison.

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Ban Ki-moon

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U Sec.Gen. from N. Korea

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Austere Challenge 12

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Joint US-Israeli military, centering anti-missile ops; cancelled

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Benjamin Netanyahu

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Hachis Israeli

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Marikama Mine

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Site of the August massacre; 34 dead

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Medicare

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National, social insurance for people 65 or older, est.1965

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Medicaid

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Est. for low income families and individuals. est. 1965

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CSF

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Central Security Force fighting AQAP

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AQAP

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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen)

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Khat

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leaf, stimulant commonly chewed in Africa & Arabian Peninsula

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Al-Qaeda Prime

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used for Bin Laden’s original group

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USS Cole

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Guided Missile destroyer attacked by suicide bomber; 10/2012, 17 dead

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Anwar al-Awlaki

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US born cleric, leader of AQAP, killed by missile drone.

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Major Nidal Malik

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Ft. Hood shooter, killed 13

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Faisal Shahzad

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2010, would-be Time Square bomber

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Catalonia

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Region in Spain, seeking independence because of debt crisis.

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Tariq al-Hashemi

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Exile, Sinus, Iraq, VP, sentence to death for killing

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Nouri al-Maliki

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Shi’ite Iraqi Prime Minister

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Bagram Air Force Base

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Afghan AF Base controlled by the US from 2001-9/2012

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EU

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European Union; 27 nations

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Ben Berananke

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Chairman of the Fed. Reserve

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Warren Buffett

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3rd richest man, chair of Bershire Hathaway, proposed of increase tax to the wealthy.

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Bershire Hathaway

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Multi-nation conglomerate holding company

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Mario Draghi

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Chairman of European Central Bank

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Chris Stevens

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US. Ambass. to Libya, killed on 9/11/12 by Al-Qaeda

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IAEA

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Int. Atomic Energy Agency, UN sponsored group, in charge of inspecting nuclear facilities

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Iranian Revolutionary Guard

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top military officials in Iran, controls much of the commerce

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Leon Panetta

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Sec. of Defense

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Hillary Clinton

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Sec. of State

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Manmohan Singh

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Prime Min. of India

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Muammar Gaddafi

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Frm. Libyan dictator, overthrown and killed in 2012.

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Aung Sun Suu Kyi

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Burmese Noble Prize Winner, 20 yrs in prison, leader of Burmese Dem.

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Salafis

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Jihadist Movement among Salafis Muslims

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Gen. John Allen

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Leader of Un troops in Afghanistan, implicated in the Petraeus Scandal

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Hugo Chavez

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Ailing Cuban Pres. recovering from disease

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Mikheil Saakashvili

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Frm.Venezuelan Pres. of Georgia, Pro-Western

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Bidzina Ivanishvili

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Current Pres of Georgia, Pro-Russian

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Mahmoud Abbas

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PLO leader in W.Bank Israel

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Henrique Capriles Radonski

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Challenged Hugo Chavez, lost by closest margin

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Angela Merkel

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German chancellor, leader in solving European debt crisis.

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Hu Jintao

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Chinese Pres. step down as Gen. of Command for military

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Xi Jinping

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VP of China, Chairman of Communist Party

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Malala Yousafza

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14 yr old blogger, shot on Oct 9,2012

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Juan Manuel Santos

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Columbian Pres.

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of Electoral Votes to Win

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270 votes

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Fracking

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Process to extract oil and gas from shale; uses large quantities of water

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Gaza

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Territory that borders Israel; occupied by 1.6 million Palestians

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David Axelrod

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Obama’s top political architect of successful political campaigns.

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Fiscal Cliff

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Automatic tax hikes & spending cuts, narrowly averted. (No deal by 12/31/12)

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Austere Measures

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Taken by govs. who cannot honor debt, reduction in spending, benefits & public spending

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GDF

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Gross Domestic Product, value of goods and services in the country

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Filibuster

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Senate Parliament Debate to delay voting

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Simpson-Bowles Plan

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Bipartisan deficit reduction plan, balance approach

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Chris Christie

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Gov. of NJ

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FEMA

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

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Joe Donnelly

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Newly elect Dem. Senator from MA

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Claire McCaskill

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Newly elected Dem. Senator from IN

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Elizabeth Warren

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Newly elected Dem. Senator from MA

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Tammy Baldwin

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Newly elected Dem. Senator from WI; openly gay

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Ted Cruz

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Newly elected Rep. Senator from TX; Member of the Tea Party

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Angus King

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Newly elected Senator from Maine; caucus with Dem.

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Todd Akin

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Rep. nominee from Missouri, should beat Claire McCaskill

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Richard Murdock

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Rep. Sen. from IN, defeated for the comment, “God intended rape”

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National Coalition

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First officially recognized Syrian resistance movement.

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PCC

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First Capital Command. Brazil’s largest gang

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David Petraeus

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Frm. 4-star General. Frm. CIA director, forced to step down for extramarital affair.

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Frederick Humphires

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FBI Agent, inquired into the Petraeus Affair

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Jill Kelley

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Petraeus’ family friend, who received threatening emails

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Paula Broadwell

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Sent the emails, Army reserve, Petraeus’s biographer, had the affair

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Robert Mueller

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FBI director

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Eric Holder

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US Attorney General

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Dave Reichert

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Rep. representative from Wash. State

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Eric Cantor

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Rep. representative from Virginia

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Mohamed El-Erian

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Co-Chief of Pimco, believes the new financial state is the new normal.

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Bill Gross

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Co-Chief of Pimco, believes the new financial state is the new normal.

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Timothy Geither

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Sec. of Treasury

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Rupert Murdoch

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CEO of New Corp., in trouble for bribes ($163,000) for inquiry

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Bai Thackeray

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Far Right from India; died Nov 17,2012; 86 years old

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M23

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Rebel group from Dem. Rep. of Congo, fighting for vast natural resources.

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Josepg Kabila

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Pres. of Dem. Rep. of Congo

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Hamas

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Palestinian political party; ruled Gaza since 2007, considered a terrorist group by the US and Israel.

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Six Day War

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Occurred in 1967, lasted for 6 days, Israel controlled Gaza after

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Fatah

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Political party in the W.Bank.

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Muslim Brotherhood

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Political party. that controlled Egypt.

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ANC

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African National Congress

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Yasser Arafat

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Former. Palestinian leader of the W.Bank; his body exhumed to check for poisoning

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ASF

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Afghan Special Forces

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ABP

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Afghan Border Patrol

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ANP

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Afghan National Police

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NDS

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National Director of Security (Afghan)

109
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SCAF

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Supreme Council Force in Egypt

110
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John Boehner

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Speaker of the House; Rep. ; Ohio

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Shinzo Abe

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7th Japanese Prime Minister in the past 6 years

112
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Chuck Hagel

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Frm. Rep. Senator, Nebraska; Viet-Nam Veteran, nominated to be the next Sec. of Defense.

113
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Susan Rice

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US UN Ambassador; Obama’s top choice for Sec. of State. Took her name out of the running, because of her comment on the Al-Qaeda attack.

114
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William Kristol

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Neo-Con, Political analysis for Fox and Weekly Times. He criticized Hagel.

115
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Robert Gates

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Frm. Sec. of Defense for Bush and Obama. Said that an attack on Iran is obsured.

116
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AIPAC

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America Israel Public Affair Committee

117
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Fiscal Cliff Deal

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Deal reached by the Obama Administration, Congress to avoid automatic tax increase & spending cuts

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WHO

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World Health Organization

119
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Salk

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Polio vaccine; $3 per shot; used to eradicate polio related diseases

120
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Sabin

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20 cents per dose; drops; good with natural polio

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