Many regarded this as a second time Syria had pressured Lebanon's Parliament to amend the constitution in a way that favored Lahoud ( the first allowing for his election in 1998 immediately after he had resigned as commander-in-chief of the LAF.

This friction has been due to disputes including the self annexation of the Hatay Province to Turkey in 1939, water disputes resulting from the Southeastern Anatolia Project, and Syria ’ s support for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party ( PKK ) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ( ASALA ), but relations have improved greatly since October 1998 ; when PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was expelled by Syrian authorities.

* 1998 Nizar Nayyouf ( Syria )

In October 1998, he set off a furor in the Arab world by threatening to " poke out the eyes " of Syria over Hafez al-Assad's alleged support of the separatist Kurdistan Workers ' Party.

Prince Ali went in 1998 on a publicized horse-ride trip to the North Central and West Caucasus ( Circassia ) from Jordan through Syria and Turkey to raise awareness of the Circassian diasporas worldwide.

Al-Eryani went into exile in Syria in 1974, where he eventually died in 1998, aged 89.

They played their first friendly matches against Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria in July 1998.

He was accused of corruption and mismanagement after Hariri's ousting in 1998, in what was mainly viewed as a conflict between Hariri and Syria, and a Syrian-orchestrated move to keep him in line.

The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

Since the retirement of Cal Ripken Jr. in 2001, the Orioles began a downward spiral, compiling a losing record in every season between 1998 and 2011.

However, after 1998, it began to describe the drink as Cuba Libre – literally translated as " Free Cuba " which is the original name of the drink and how it's mostly called in Latin America.

There have been eight series sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1995, 2008, and 2012.

C ' mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

Also in 1998, local assembly of the Vectra began at Elizabeth, South Australia.

Inflation was steady before Robert Mugabe in 1998 began a program of land reforms that primarily focused on taking land from white farmers and redistributing those properties and assets to black farmers, which sent food production and revenues from export of food plummeting.

The Colts began to improve towards the end of the 1998 season and showed continued growth in 1999.

The rivalry truly began heating up with the 1998 draft and the selections of Peyton Manning by the Colts and the ill-fated Ryan Leaf by the Chargers.

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Hada, Mihdhar's father-in-law.

In the 1998 elections, the Latvian party structure began to consolidate with only six parties winning seats in the Saeima.

As such the only major carrier on its territory is Interdnestrcom or IDC who began its operation in 1998.

Some began to return in 1998, but lack of housing limited the number.

After leaving ADM in August of 1995, Whitacre was hired as the CEO of Future Health Technologies ( FHT ), which soon thereafter FHT was renamed Biomar International, and he worked at Biomar until his incarceration began during early 1998.

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

In June 1998, Nepal submitted its memorandum on a foreign trade regime to the World Trade Organization and in May 2000 began direct negotiations on its accession.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

Starting in 1998, experiments began to show that solar and atmospheric neutrinos change flavors ( see Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ).

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Mihdhar's father-in-law Ahmad Muhammad Ali al-Hada, who was facilitating al-Qaeda communications, in 1999.

In 1998, the NBA owners began a lockout which lasted 191 days and was settled on January 18, 1999.

The rebellion began in early 1989, active hostilities ended with a truce in October 1997 and a permanent ceasefire was signed in April 1998.

Progress in the areas of Dayton, Erdut, and refugee returns were evident in 1998, but progress was slow and required intensive international engagement.

Sales of " Welcome 2 The Party " and Devil were slow, though the 1998 Warped Tour in Northampton, Massachusetts stimulated regional interest in Massachusetts and New England.

By 1994, sales of CD-i systems had begun to slow, and in 1998 the product line was dropped.

Much of what was contained in the Sunningdale Agreement found its way into the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which was once described by the then deputy leader of the SDLP, Seamus Mallon, as " Sunningdale for slow learners ", a reference to the failed power-sharing deal of 1973.

After a decade of slow sales, Chrysler announced the discontinuation of the Eagle brand in November 1997, and the last 1998 Eagle Talon rolled off the line shortly thereafter.

In 1998, for a car that had suffered from slow sales when it was officially sold, with a surge of interest and the benefit of a newly introduced SVA scheme, the FD would become so popular that there were more parallel and grey imported models brought into the country than Mazda UK had ever imported.

A peace accord on Bougainville confirmed in 1998 has removed the armed threat, but refugee return has been slow.

In 1998, Lau sued the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency due to the latter's slow response over her queries for personal information.

However, a slow start the next season due to injury made him expendable to the Canucks, and the fan favorite was traded by de facto General Manager Mike Keenan along with goaltender Kirk McLean to the Carolina Hurricanes on January 3, 1998.

He did not slow down in the late 1990s, performing producing and directing chores on such shows as China Beach ( 1988 ), Xena: Warrior Princess ( 1995 ), Nash Bridges ( 1996 ), Charmed ( 1998 ) and Tracker ( 2001 ).

While the band's style on the first publications was primarily death / doom with correspondingly slow songs and death growl singing, the band began playing black metal on the 1998 album The Return of the Black Death.

Their next 2 singles, " Too Close ", a cover of the 1998 chart topper from US boyband Next & " If You Come Back ", a slow love ballad quickly became chart toppers for the group.

The tune tends to be played as a slow air, but certain arrangements put it at a faster tempo, as in the Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch, the concert overture Rob Roy by Hector Berlioz, and the Real McKenzies ' punk rock rendition on their 1998 album Clash of the Tartans.

The first of these was " Life Is Brighter Than Light ", a track unlike their others in that it was rather slow, with an instrumental part resembling the 1998 hit " World Cup Samba " by Dario G. The second was " Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling ", a breakbeat track with a quick beat.

At the end of 1998, when the Wallflowers tour finally began to slow down, Rami expanded his musical talents and began producing for his friend and former labelmate, Phil Cody.

It was sold in the United Kingdom ( UK ) from 1996 to 1998, but was withdrawn due to slow sales.

Later in 1998, when the collections business began to slow, AMRESCO grew into the business of buying and securitizing subprime mortgages and commercial loans.