Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined by twelve A-6 attack planes launched off carriers in the Mediterranean, blasted military and intelligence targets in and around Tripoli and the coastal city of Benghazi. Going to the source of Libyan fanaticism, four F-111s aimed 16 bombs, each weighing 2,000 lbs., at the Bab al Azizia barracks: the living quarters and command and communications center from which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had incited, planned or supported terrorist murders throughout the world...
...close associate, "underground"--presumably in a bunker where he often sleeps. His family was less fortunate: an 18-month-old girl, reportedly his adopted daughter Hana, was said to have been one of at least 37 civilian casualties of the raid. The dictator's two young sons, Saif al Arab, 4, and Hamis, 3, were injured and his wife Safia shell-shocked when bombs blew off the front walls of their living quarters...
...London, a major tragedy was averted at Heathrow Airport Thursday morning when security guards for El Al, the Israeli airline, found a bomb in the luggage of a pregnant Irishwoman who was attempting to board a flight from New York City. The bomb was timed to go off when the flight would have been back in the air winging toward Tel Aviv. Said George Churchill-Coleman, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch: "It is highly likely that an explosion from a device of this type would have resulted in the loss of the aircraft, a 747 jumbo...
They saw the graceful parabolas of orange tracer bullets against the blackness of the sky. They heard the scream of jet fighters and the thunder of antiaircraft fire. They felt their hotel shiver in response to the bombs' pounding. But many of the U.S. reporters clustered in Al Kabir Hotel in downtown Tripoli were not quite sure what was actually going on. Like the people in Plato's parable of the cave who can discern reality only from the shadows that a fire throws on the wall, the correspondents could only make informed guesses as to what was happening...
Minutes later, at 7:20, Larry Speakes strode into the White House briefing room, and all three networks cut to his press conference. As Speakes informed the nation of the U.S. attack, Fischer joined other correspondents at Al Kabir in a huddle around ABC's open phone line to New York to hear for themselves what was actually going...