Word: flanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bobs may not weigh more than 858 lbs., including both crewmen). But the sled bodies were made in one piece, rather than in two as are other bobs, and they were much narrower than normal, with dramatic fins that jutted from each side of their noses and flanks. These allowed the sleds to meet the letter if not the spirit of the regulation that requires a minimum width of 34 in. Other sleds also have stubby finlike projections at the nose to stabilize the machine, and while those on the cigarskis appeared to be larger than normal, it was their...
...Reagan Administration has a strategic stake in Sudan's wellbeing. Under Nimeiri, the country has strengthened its ties with Egypt, America's major Arab ally in the Middle East. Sudan shields Egypt's southern flank from attack and safeguards the upper reaches of Egypt's economic mainstay, the Nile River. In recent years, Sudan has also served as a buffer against the designs of Libya's Gaddafi, whom Nimeiri derides as having "two personalities, both of them evil." Finally, Sudan's key location might make it an ideal staging area for U.S. forces...
...Marines fired back with everything they had, as ships of the Sixth Fleet joined the defense with their 5-in. guns. Throughout the evening, one of the hottest spots was Checkpoint 7, two rooftop observation posts outside the Marines' eastern flank, which were manned by a total of 19 Marines. So intense was the fire that five members of one squad left their bunkers voluntarily, scampered up two flights of stairs and a metal ladder, to join their firepower to that of five comrades who were already in the rooftop fighting position. That act of gallantry cost them dearly. Three...
...were they the only ones troubled by the most serious crisis the island has faced since the 1974 invasion by Turkish troops. Because Denktash's action exacerbated already crackling tensions between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies, it threatened further disruption on the alliance's southern flank at the very moment that NATO faces the volatile issue of deploying U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Groused the left-leaning Paris daily Libération: "The storm surrounding the Euromissiles wasn't enough. Cyprus had to be thrown in as well...
...built up further; the U.S. may even need the draft. But Reagan is having trouble getting his present defense-spending requests through Congress (he asked for a 14.2% increase over fiscal 1983). Perhaps the most comforting thought is that the Soviet Union, faced by a hostile China on one flank and ringed by potentially mutinous East European allies on another, has its own worries about how much military force it could safely commit to any bloody, prolonged foreign adventure...