Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SUMMER OLYMPICS (NBC). A two-hour preview show on Sept. 15 (9 p.m. EDT) sets the stage; then let the TV blitz begin...
...international assault on Latin America's illicit drug industry was unprecedented. In Operation Snowcap, made public only when it ended last week, antidrug forces from 30 nations cooperated for 28 days in a blitz on the dope trade -- dynamiting airstrips, assaulting coca-processing operations, searching travelers. Among the participating nations were Belgium, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Britain, the U.S. and Venezuela. Results: 11 tons of cocaine and 244 tons of marijuana seized; 114 guns, 122 boats, planes and vehicles confiscated; 22 cocaine labs destroyed; and 1,267 arrests made. Yet no major kingpins were nailed. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh applauded...
...symbolism in the fact that their convention will significantly out tech the Republicans'. "We just really knocked ourselves out to make sure we ended up with a state-of-the-art information system," says Arleigh Greenblatt, general manager of the convention and the man credited with the Democrats' technological blitz. "We wanted very much to be respected for our business prowess...
...April, Iraq rolled into an offensive of its own, the first major attack since it invaded Iran in 1980. In a 36-hour blitz, the Seventh Army Corps, supported by President Saddam Hussein's elite Presidential Guard, retook the Fao peninsula, a finger of land at Iraq's southern tip that Iran had occupied after weeks of bloody fighting in February 1986. An estimated 20,000 Iranian troops were routed; 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. A day after the Fao disaster, Iranian naval forces clashed in the gulf with U.S. ships that had just demolished Iran's offshore...
After digesting the first-round results, Chirac threw himself into a frenetic three-stop-a-day campaign across France. In six days, the Premier and his entourage were planning to hit 18 cities, eleven more than he had intended to blitz before the first-round tallies appeared. Somehow the hyperkinetic candidate was also managing to run the government and deal with the crisis in New Caledonia...