Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coastal assault began swiftly as the invading column, including some 100 tanks and an equal number of personnel carriers, closed in on the port of Tyre. At the same time, Israeli landing craft and helicopters surprised the defend ers by placing troops and even tanks as far north as the Zahrani River, 30 miles north of the border. P.L.O. guerrillas held their positions as long as they could and then dispersed. Some stayed in Tyre, while others went to refugee camps or into the hills to do battle as small guerrilla units...
...employed people by building nuclear power plants across the country." she remembers. They prepared extensively to defend the plan's environmental consequences, saying "we had 20 or 30 pages on why nuclear waste was the greatest thing We were going to glassify it, send it to outer space...
...Angels' "women street survival" course attempts, in five two-hour sessions, to teach women to defend themselves against assault. The Angels will attempt to limit the free 25-member course--which has filled up and has a waiting list--to women, because men are less likely to be assaulted, Angels' leader Charles F. Mehlinger said yesterday...
...policy of detente, combined with the necessary will to defend ourselves, is not one of fear and defeatism. It is a policy based on the conviction that our system and our values are superior. Neither is détente a capitulation vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. It is, on the contrary, an active policy contributing to greater independence for the Eastern European countries. Striking the right balance between the double objective of the alliance-defense and détente-is necessary. It is also indispensable to secure a firm commitment to NATO from our own peoples...
...Peter's Square by a Turkish terrorist and the attempt on his life last month in Portugal by a bayonet-wielding dissident priest. The Pope's special $400,000 yellow-and-white security vehicles-dubbed the four Popemo-biles-contained engineering features originally developed to defend vehicles against Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland...