Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kampuchean countryside, where the rebel fighters battle the improving army of the People's Republic. Around Chhun Kiri, 65 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge has stepped up its "war of the villages." At a nearby hospital lay Pen Kea, 40, his leg injured in a guerrilla attack. "The Khmer Rouge comes every three nights," he said. "You have got to be afraid of them...
Sunnily dubbed the "summer plan," the economic controls announced by the government of President Jose Sarney last week received a decidedly chilly reception. Designed to slash the country's 1,580% inflation rate and to attack the $66 billion national debt, the plan will freeze prices, abolish automatic wage hikes and devalue the Brazilian cruzado by 16.4% in relation to the dollar. The government will close six out of 27 ministries, and promises to fire 60,000 employees. Brazil is temporarily suspending any further debt-for- equity swaps with foreign banks and refuses to rule out a new moratorium...
Iraq came under widespread criticism last year after it killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kurdish villagers with a chemical-weapons attack in the gulf war. Now U.S. officials confirm that Baghdad has been developing yet another form of warfare expressly banned by international law: biological weapons...
...basketball team will defeat Dartmouth Tuesday at Briggs Cage. A plan of attack: The cagers should work the ball to Ron Mitchell more. He's been the most consistent player on the team. Don't be surprised if Harvard Coach Peter Roby and company are hanging up an Ivy title banner at the end of the season...
Mike Adessa's Engineers bang and bruise but can't slow down the Crimson attack...