Word: flare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current episodes are the most serious flare-up of border tension since May 1981, when China claimed that its soldiers had killed 150 Vietnamese troops in a single engagement. Throughout the week, according to reports from Peking, Chinese militiamen killed at least 37 Vietnamese soldiers in four or more incidents in Yunnan province. In the meantime, said the New China News Agency, Vietnamese gunners opened up on a district in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, damaging the primary school, the bank, the food-grain management office and a hospital...
Hanoi's frustrations sometimes flare into violence. Late last month, Vietnamese troops began their annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians...
...rival groups taunt and threaten each other; once in a while they rumble; sometimes a flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that...
...Lebanon over the next few months. Israeli reasons for remaining there diminish daily. The occupation is not politically popular at home, the casualty list is growing, however slightly, and the cost-both economic and moral-is high. But when Reagan presses for his peace plan, tempers are sure to flare again...
This doube has served to underline other tensions within Israel. The settlements that Begin continues to create in the occupied territories are like needles in a collective Israeli flesh. Each new settlement puts greater strain on Jewish-Arab relations. As tempers flare, the government feels forced to take security measures. Arab mayors who sympathize with the Palestinian cause are fired, schools are closed when students voice their discontent and the homes of Arabs believed to be friendly toward the PLO are torn to the ground. Many Jews recognize these injustices. So Israeli society is becoming divided between those whose anti...