Word: armored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel, it seems, was convinced that the hydrofoils, each with a capacity of 150 passengers, had been sent to Messina to be fitted with guns and armor plating so they could be used to ferry Fatah guerrillas into the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, from which they were driven by Israeli troops in 1982. The plan, say the Israelis, was for Fatah fighters to make a dash for the Lebanese coast from Cyprus on the high-speed hydrofoils under cover of night. And how did the Israeli spooks who foiled the plan smuggle bombs into Italy? "You just come...
...launched a major rainy-season offensive across the marshlands of Al Huwaiza, north of the Iraqi city of Basra on the Shatt al Arab waterway. This year, on the anniversary of the day the Ayatullah Khomeini took power in 1979, the Iranians struck again. In the past, superior Iraqi armor and air power have repulsed waves of often youthful Iranian invaders. This time Iranian troops undertook a surprise offensive farther south, enabling Iran to claim at least a momentary psychological victory in the 5 1/2-year-old...
...embarrassingly and pathetically a dork. He sort of lopes along, peering timidly at girls and unconsciously pushing back his recalcitrant, oily locks. But Glover rescues George from unredeemable wimpiness by infusing his soul with a little bit of the poet, and a little bit of the knight in shining armor. He convinces us that George, for all his bumbling, might win Lorraine...
...Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury as a teenager in an early role. Bergman is haunting as a naive young maid who is duped by primo sleazebag Boyer, who wants to steal her family jewels. The ending is so trite and stylized that one half expects a knight in shining armor to stride up the stairs of Bergman's London townhouse. But this is mere Kabuki '40s style, so just lap up Bergman, who hits some real highs during her (and our) two-hour angst-holiday in hell...
...first public event, Gorbachev traveled to the Arc de Triomphe for a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. As the 28-car motorcade moved up the Champs Elysees, the General Secretary raised his hand and gave an occasional wave out of the window of his armor-plated Peugeot 604 limousine. There were precious few people to wave back. For blocks along the route, only a few of the insatiably curious leaned against police barricades...