Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gulf duty only since late May, and its crew got its first taste of battle the morning of July 3. The ship had just skirmished with Iranian gunboats when the Airbus was spotted, and all hands were already on alert because of intelligence warnings of a possible Iranian terrorist attack over the July 4 weekend. According to the Washington Post, agitated crew members even fumbled the complex firing sequence several times before launching the missiles...
Last week both candidates courted women's votes by traveling the day-care circuit, hugging preschoolers, pushing children on swings and playing with goldfish. Bush tried to attack his gender-gap problem by proposing a $2.2 billion child-care program. In Republican fashion, the plan would rely on tax breaks and credits rather than a direct Government program. Still, it would cost money, and Bush, who says he will not raise taxes, is not saying where the funds would come from. Below a certain income level, every mother with small children would get a tax credit or refund...
...fleet of nuclear- powered submarines. While the undertaking produced such vessels as the titanium-hulled Alfa-class boats, so expensive that only six were built, it also produced newer Soviet sub classes that go faster, travel deeper and carry more weapons than their American rivals. Moscow's Oscar-class attack submarines are the most heavily armed on the seas...
...Bush could choose based simply on his own likes, he would tap his friend the Waspy and witty Wyoming Senator. Extremely popular and partisan, he would be an effective attack dog. Though ardently conservative, his pro-choice abortion stance would ruffle the right. He looks like Ichabod Crane, and his tart tongue could get him in trouble. Worse, his state has only three electoral votes...
...disclosure gave some credence to speculation that the City of Poros attack was carried out by members of Abu Nidal's terrorist organization. Police suspect that the leader of the raid was Hejab Jaballah, an Abu Nidal confederate whose last known residence was Tripoli. Jaballah entered Greece on a Libyan passport almost six weeks before the assault, and was thought to be one of two men killed when a car loaded with explosives blew up at dockside only hours before the Poros bloodbath...