For many religious Israelis, the lightning victory of the 1967 war was proof of divine intervention.

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Olson presents as a prime example the poignant story of celebrated author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who was caught between her husband's leadership of the campaign to keep America out of the war and the efforts of her mother and sister on behalf of intervention.

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The 1937 match proved to be the final Ryder Cup before the intervention of the Second World War, with the 1939 event, planned for Florida, cancelled.

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Significantly, considering that Algeria's war was sparked by military intervention against the rising Islamist tide of the early 1990s, the Islamist candidate, Abdallah Jaballah, came a distant third with 5% of the vote.

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With Watergate and the Vietnam war, America started to approach European levels of cynicism about government and military intervention abroad.

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And he has a decent foreign-policy record, from taking France back into NATO's military structure to his intervention in the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and his joint leadership of the campaign against Libya.

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What made intervention in Sierra Leone so urgent was the sheer savagery of the war there, and the sense of common humanity that can sometimes prompt other countries to act.

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It was the intervention of a diminutive pistol-wielding Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, that set off World War I.

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