Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest manhunts ever seen on either side of the Irish border. In Dublin, Irish authorities ordered increased surveillance of the rugged border area to prevent fugitives from reaching traditional sanctuaries in the counties of Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Louth. In Ulster, security forces threw a tight five-mile cordon around the prison, while thousands of soldiers and police blocked roads, combed fields and searched houses throughout the week. It was, said one police officer involved in the search, "like trying to corner a pack of wolves...
...Gdansk, shouting out the name of Solidarity and flourishing their familiar V signs, and once again Lech Walesa was walking at their head. As the passionate faithful, 3,000 strong, neared the town's 151-foot monument to workers slain in 1970, they were stopped by a cordon of security police. Walesa and his bodyguard were permitted to pass. Advancing to the monument, the stocky electrician knelt before its three towering steel crosses and gently laid at its base a bouquet of red and pink gladioli. Then, flanked by security police, Walesa slowly raised his right hand...
...went to pray at St. Pascal Church at the invitation of the pastor. NIGGER DIE was freshly spray-painted on one door of the Roman Catholic church on the city's lily-white northwest side. "Carpetbagger!" an angry crowd of about 200 standing outside shouted at Mondale. A cordon of police was needed to protect the pair as they quickly departed...
...Lebanon had been altogether effective. Soon after the Sunday attack, they noted, the P.L.O. made two important concessions. First, the leaders dropped their demand that an international force be in place in West Beirut be fore their organization moved out. The P.L.O. does not want to depart through a cordon of Israeli forces. Said one U.S. expert: "If the choice is between martyrdom and walking out through Israeli lines they [the P.L.O.] will stay and fight." Second, the guerrillas said they would no longer insist that Israel complete a minimal withdrawal of its own forces before the evacuation begins...
...spokes, and Garry's entourage is loyal. His ex-wife (Elizabeth Hubbard) is a kind of high-fashion Candi da, and his primly efficient Girl Friday (Dana Ivey) is a slave driver's jewel. His manager (Richard Woods) and producer (Edward Conery) round out the protective cordon...