Word: firefighters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounds of battle soon erupted again, this time mortar and grenade explosions and gunfire from forces loyal to Noriega. The firefight claimed the lives of ten rebels and wounded 18 loyalist troops and five civilians. By 2 that afternoon, Noriega's supporters were rounding up the last of the rebels. It was all over but the pompous pronouncements in Panama -- and the recriminations in Washington...
...allow him to serve until the end of 1990 without being confirmed. But if the Administration goes that route, it is sure to anger the Senate, endangering the President's future appointments and proposals. When the Senate returns after Labor Day, the President and his Attorney General face another firefight over the nomination of Clarence Thomas, the ultraconservative black chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to the federal appeals court in Washington. That battle might give Thurmond another opportunity to cast himself as a sanctimonious champion of civil rights...
...battle with Iranian speedboats (two were eventually sunk) only twelve miles offshore at the southern end of the gulf at the very moment that Flight 655 took off. Yet apparently nobody warned the civilian traffic controllers that Flight 655's path would take it directly over a developing firefight; had the controllers known that, they say, they would have delayed the takeoff. Why the foul-up? The military and civilian controllers at Bandar Abbas, it seems, did not talk to each other...
...ship or plane is approaching with hostile intent. Doubtless influencing Rogers' decision was the fact that his ship had just been engaged in hostilities. Following reports of Iranian speedboat attacks on two neutral ships, the Vincennes sent a helicopter to investigate. The Iranians fired on the helicopter, triggering a firefight that Flight 655 had the foul luck to wander into...
...good. Sure enough, as darkness settled, shots rang out. The American sentries responded, firing into the dense jungle that surrounds the 800-acre Arraijan Tank Farm. For two hours, the Marines fired small arms and mortars. Miraculously, no one was hurt; the previous night, a smaller firefight had resulted in the accidental fatal shooting of a Marine. Could the U.S. troops have once again mistaken their fellow countrymen for hostile Panamanians? "Unauthorized personnel," insisted the U.S. Southern Command. "Shadows," countered the Panama Defense Forces...