Word: braggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours, the drama played out on the world's television screens, and for a while it seemed as if it would provoke direct U.S. military intervention in El Salvador's ugly, decade-old civil war. Twelve Green Berets from Fort Bragg, N.C., part of a U.S. advisory team in El Salvador, were holed up on the fourth floor of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador's wealthy Escalon district, while about 20 heavily armed young guerrillas, who had seemingly blundered into the hotel, roamed the floors above and below them...
Knowledgeable diplomatic sources, who insisted on anonymity for security reasons, said the American soldiers barricaded inside the hotel will spend the night there. The eight are described as heavily armed Green Berets from Fort Bragg...
...noon yesterday, three C-140 transport planes unloaded about 150 soldiers from Fort Bragg and four-wheel drive vans for 60 FBI agents and 50 federal marshals who also arrived yesterday...
RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the subject's letters and his 350,000-word private diary; the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor...
RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the subject's letters and a 350,000-word private diary; the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor...