Word: firefights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoulder to shoulder and had us march from Saigon all the way up to the DMZ. Just make a sweep." Those who raise the subject agree that racism vanished on the front lines: "In the field, we had the utmost respect for each other, because when a firefight is going on and everybody is facing north, you don't want to see nobody looking around south." Away from the fighting, relations got stickier. The sight of Confederate flags brandished by some white servicemen still rankles: "An insult to any person that's of color on this planet...
After a vigorous three-day firefight, the attackers succeeded in overrunning about 120 Sandinista defenders entrenched amid San Juan del Norte's thatched adobe huts. A.R.D.E. commanders said that mysterious nocturnal support from offshore played a role both before and during the victory...
...suicidal attacks may capture the most attention, but it is the unremitting bursts of daily violence that make Lebanon the terrifying place it is: the car bombing here, the firefight there. Sometimes what is most surprising is that the savagery does not claim even more victims. When six explosions ripped through a cluster of stores in West Beirut last week, one person was killed and three were wounded; had the bombs not gone off shortly after the 8 p.m. curfew, when the streets were deserted, the toll could have been much higher. The terrorists, as usual, were unknown...
...Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, the left-wing Sandinista government has made much of its recent moderate gestures, as the U.S. endeavors to fashion a diplomatic response...
After the Sunday naval strike, the Marines were ready for trouble, and it came that night. Shortly after dark, a Marine officer saw shells exploding around Lebanese Army positions in the nearby town of Khalde. The firefight picked up, and soon the Marines were being hit by the most intensive bombardment they had faced in Lebanon. One company reported it was being shelled by multiple-launched 107-mm or 122-mm rockets. Another said its command post was being hit by a 23-mm antiaircraft weapon only 817 yards away. Machine-gun and small-arms fire was fierce...