Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uses no first name) was trying to consolidate his grip on the affairs of state, but the ground was moving beneath him. His effort to coax rebels back into the fold with offers of amnesty has failed. His army has become a demoralized shambles. Soldiers often refuse to fight and are deserting to the rebels in large numbers. Now he must face the most daunting prospect of all: a possible pullout of Soviet troops...
...shattered by bursts of machine-gun fire. It seems a tribal leader, a former rebel who is now a general in the Afghan army, took exception when security troops refused to let his armed bodyguards past a checkpoint not far from the National Assembly meeting hall. The ensuing fire fight left eleven dead and the general nursing wounds in a hospital...
...month. Technologically, the country is so backward that many farmers still plant and harvest from horse-drawn carts, while many factories run on steam-powered . machinery from the last century. Even Lech Walesa, former leader of the now outlawed Solidarity, favors basic economic reforms. "The point is not to fight against the authorities," he said last week. "We must make efforts to achieve structural change...
...arms race has been going on in the NHL. The arms are goons hired to fight an enemy enforcer. In the Norris division alone, all five teams got new enforcers in the same calendar week...
Adolfo Calero, one of the six directors of the Contra umbrella organization known as Nicaraguan Resistance, announced the 36-hour cease-fire in Miaimi, and said the rebels would fight back only if attacked...