Word: firefighters
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Indeed, 15 minutes after Suro's photo at left was taken last week, rounds from a firefight fell on the spot...
Since September, 300 government soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded while some 450 have been taken prisoner. One humiliating incident occurred two weeks ago in the southern town of Anamorós when, after a brief firefight, an army company of 135 men surrendered. Though the rebels announced that they would return the soldiers through the International Red Cross, they pointedly added that they would keep an arsenal that included 153 assault rifles, four M-79 grenade launchers, a 90-mm cannon and 50,000 rounds of ammunition...
...carry loaded weapons, the company mess tent was decorated with a sign reading THE CAN'T SHOOT BACK SALOON. After they were finally allowed to arm themselves last spring, the sign changed to THE CAN SHOOT BACK SALOON. When Alpha Company engaged unidentified gunmen in a daylong firefight on Aug. 29, the Marines repainted the sign THE DID SHOOT BACK SALOON. "When we see the whites of their eyes, we'll do it to them," promises John Sexton. Still, for a group of highly trained, largely untested fighters, life in Beirut has an air of maddening unreality. Says...
Vargas was referring to some 150 anti-Sandinista invaders who had swept down on the hamlet garrison five days earlier to launch a twelve-hour firefight. Before the attack was repelled, the Sandinistas claimed, the counterrevolutionaries killed five Nicaraguan defenders and wounded five others, at a cost of 58 of their own dead. According to the Nicaraguans, the incident was the latest in a series of 500 such attacks in the past year; as many as 440 civilians and military men have been killed. The Bismuna battle, they protested, was part of a continuing effort by the Reagan Administration...
...Miskito populations began to rise up. The Ministry of Defense said in its propaganda that the people who were fighting us were former national guardsmen [Somoza supporters], not Miskitos. On June 5, I participated in a firefight that was said to be with guardsmen, but it was really with Miskitos. They lost no one. We lost 19 men, officers as well as enlisted men. Twenty-two more were wounded. Only I and one other man were not hurt or killed. The regional chief of staff and his escort staff ran when the fighting started. When he decided to leave...