Word: firefights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the two sides were still a long way from resolving their differences-so much so that the talks were indefinitely recessed. More ominously, Egyptian and Israeli forces started up a 25-minute firefight with mortars and machine guns, about a mile from the Kilometer 101 U.N. base. Other fights were reported all up and down the west bank of the canal. Observers suggested that Egypt had started the fighting as a kind of small-scale war of attrition aimed at forcing Israel to disengage. Pointedly, Egyptian officers confirmed that since the cease-fire took effect, their...
...village, perhaps ten to fifteen huts, had clearly been abandoned in a hurry. But there was no obvious sign of a firefight-no bullet marks in the tree stumps or huts. It would require nothing less than a team of forensic experts to track down any evidence of a massacre...
...Wounded Knee itself, tensions rose and fell with events. Early in the week, both sides had seemed close to resolving their differences-until Russell Means' brother Bill was wounded in a firefight. When the car transporting him to the hospital was stopped at a roadblock, federal authorities discovered Molotov cocktails in the trunk and arrested the Indians. Incensed, Russell Means crammed his people into a small community hall the next morning to fire them...
...morning a Jeep sped through An Loc carrying a wounded Vietnamese Ranger sprawled across the hood; two of his comrades had just been killed in a nearby firefight. Highway 13 from Saigon has been closed for nine months; supplies for An Loc are brought in by air-usually dropped by parachute...
Special Forces Captain Roger H.C. Donlon, a tall, sandy-haired soldier who led a heroic defense against Viet Cong attackers in 1963, was the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Viet Nam. Donlon himself was wounded four times in the firefight, but he refused medical aid until his men were treated. Donlon, 38, today is a major serving in Thailand...