Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transformed Lebanon into a scarred battlefield took a sudden and risky turn for the worse last week. Two Lebanese air force Hawker-Hunter fighter jets strafed and rocketed Moslem and Palestinian troops that were besieging Damur, a rightist-held town a few miles south of Beirut International Airport. The attack represented the first time that Lebanese armed forces had plunged openly into major combat since the shooting began nine months...
...Lebanese military spokesman described the Damur air sortie as an attempt to help ground forces recover army vehicles seized in a Moslem-leftist ambush. Orders for the attack apparently came from the Lebanese army commander, Major General Hanna Saeed, a Maronite Christian. Premier Rashid Karami, a Moslem who is also Minister of Defense, tried to halt the strike when Saeed telephoned him that air action had been ordered. Karami's policy since the civil war has been to try to keep Lebanon's 18,000-member armed forces neutral. He has feared that because the officer corps...
...this episode, Moynihan sidestepped a tacit understanding that Washington and Moscow would not attack each other by name...
...AMERICAN REVIVAL. Out of the decline of the West there will, I sense, emerge a rise in spirits. We have shortened our lines. We are under attack. [But] there is nothing in our culture that suggests we will not in the end defend ourselves successfully. We are the party of liberty. Always have been, even when least true to it. As the lights go out in the rest of the world, they shine all the brighter here...
...Flyers disrupted Central Army's attack by refusing to chase the puck. Instead they waited at their own blue line -four skaters strong-and checked every Army forward attempting to penetrate the offensive zone. The tactic paid off in a 4-1 victory...