Word: compound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on every thing they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving out side the walls of the embattled embassy...
...there was nothing measured or restrained about the fighting. On Tuesday, a quarter of an hour after the deaths of the two Marine corporals, the Marines fired two illumination flares at the suspected sources of the hostile fire. On Wednesday night, after ten rounds landed in the Marines' compound, they fired six 155-mm howitzer shells at a target in the hills. On Thursday, as the shelling continued, the Americans responded with artillery fire and with four shells from a 5-in. gun aboard the Bowen, a U.S. frigate stationed off the Lebanese coast. The naval fire was aimed...
...victims of the worst outbreak of factional fighting since the Israeli invasion last summer. Although there could be no doubt that Druze and Shi'ite militiamen in the hills and shantytowns near the airport had deliberately targeted the U.S. troops, stray rounds also made their way into the compound. Uneasy about the security of the Marine contingent in Lebanon, the U.S. last week ordered an additional 2,000 Marines from East Africa to the eastern Mediterranean, making them available for service in Lebanon if they should be needed...
Next, U.S. officials began suggesting various locations for the interview: the State Department itself, the international airport, some neutral spot in Washington. Says a U.S. negotiator: "The key question was who would control the environment." Predictably, the Soviets countered with an offer to hold the interview in their embassy compound. It was promptly declined...
...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...