Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policemen stood at the entryway for two hours to prevent anyone from entering the building. The Greenoughers went to the Union Parlor B, where they watched television and had a pillow fight, according to Greenough resident Thuylam Tran...
Typical of the seesaw battle has been the fight for Barikot, a garrison just across the border from the Pakistani town of Arandu. Barikot is a major base of Soviet operations to block rebel supplies from abroad. Since the mujahedin first attacked the northeastern frontier outpost six years ago, the Soviets have broken the siege twice, only to see the rebels re-establish it. Robert Schultheis, an American free-lance writer, recently made his third trip into Afghanistan since the war began -- and his second for TIME -- and observed the fighting around Barikot. His report...
...Panjshir valley and northern Afghanistan. Last summer, when Barikot was in danger of falling, the Soviets mounted one of their biggest operations of the war in order to save it. Supported by scores of MiGs and other jets, and Mi-24 helicopters, some 10,000 troops managed to fight their way through to Barikot, but after a few days the guerrillas began to close in behind and around them. The main force had to retreat, leaving behind a beefed-up garrison dug in behind a maze of minefields and heavily armed with howitzers, mortars and rocket launchers...
...croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub. For the French, love is l'amour fou. Francis is wise...
...Democrats can pick up that many seats in this year's elections, they will overturn the G.O.P.'s 53-to-47 majority. For both parties, this means war. "Never has a Democratic victory been more urgently needed," exhort letters from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "We're in the fight of our lives!" exclaim letters from the Republican Presidential Task Force. The White House too is signaling red alert. "For this Administration's next two years," says Reagan's political adviser Mitch Daniels, "nothing approaches control of the Senate in importance...