By the end of September things were so bad that the 1st battalion had to launch another operation to sweep clean an area it had supposedly held for months.

9月底，事态愈发严重，一营不得不再次发动一场军事行动，对这个据称已占领一个月的地区进行扫荡。

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Thus the CIA's mission was to monitor, analyze, report, and sometimes launch an operation whose purpose was to stop the Soviets from doing something.

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Muhyiddin, who invited Unesco secretary-general Irina Bokova to Kuala Lumpur to sign an MoU to endorse the co-operation during the launch of the first programme under the initiative in June, said some countries had great achievements in universal primary education while others, especially from the sub-Sahara region, were far from the target.

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Several Nato members, including the US and France, say they will help to train an African force for the Mali operation, but have not offered to send ground troops or launch air strikes.

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