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That bloody spree prompted the Indians, whose peacekeeping force had grown to more than 20,000, to launch their all-out drive against the Tigers. With Jayewardene's blessing, the Indians began moving against Tiger hideouts in the east, killing three rebels and arresting 98. Next Gandhi's forces began the much more difficult job of rooting the Tigers out of the Jaffna Peninsula, their main stronghold. After securing control of most of the peninsula, the Indians advanced on Jaffna town behind artillery and air strikes...
power: a series of all-out strokes that a shell uses to try to surge ahead of its opponents. Listen for coxswains calling for power during the Head...
...Members of the business community may now be funding him, and some observers predicted he would launch a new coup attempt within a few weeks. If so, he could win support among government troops and officers, a majority of whom continue to sympathize with Honasan's professed goals of an all-out offensive against the N.P.A. and higher living standards for soldiers. There was even speculation that the well-organized Bicol attacks were Honasan's work. Indeed, late last week the N.P.A. denied responsibility for the bombings and hinted that Honasan may be trying to set up his own power...
...traditional Thayer-Holworthy rivalry exploded into all-out pandemonium Sunday night as students rampaged through the Yard, screaming obscenities at rival dorms, throwing beer bottles and water balloons out of windows and "releasing tension and energy," in the words of Grays proctor Dwight D. Miller...
...Kremlin harbors the opposite suspicion: that R. and D. will turn out to be a smoke screen for an all-out program to deploy SDI. As Roald Sagdeyev, director of Moscow's Space Research Institute, told TIME, "We need some kind of insurance policy on SDI; otherwise, what is advertised innocently as a testing program could lead to rapid deployment of a full-scale system. Unrestrained SDI testing would confront our military planners with the requirement of more offensive systems, not less. It's that simple...