Word: flew
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...fixed positions and much of its long-range Soviet-built artillery had been eliminated from southern Lebanon. But the P.L.O. put up fierce resistance and remained an organized military force, confronting the Israelis in Sidon and Tyre while blocking their advance at Damur. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin flew by helicopter into 800-year-old Beaufort Castle, a stone-walled mountaintop fortress from which the P.L.O. had often directed fire at northern Israel...
From London, Reagan flew on Wednesday to Bonn, where he faced one of his most difficult tasks. West German politics are rived by an exceptionally wide generation gap. Older Germans, who vividly remember war and foreign occupation, are mostly pro-NATO, though often worried about American commitment to the alliance. Youths under 30 are flocking in growing numbers to an antinuclear movement that tends to consider a missile-armed NATO a greater threat to peace than the Soviet forces across the East German border. Reagan in effect would be addressing two Germanys...
...Carlos beachhead two weeks ago. The Gurkhas were assigned the task of mopping up pockets of Argentine resistance that were bypassed by Britain's fast-moving Parachute Regiment as it raced toward Goose Green and Port Stanley. Daily, after a ritual unsheathing of their curved kukris, they flew out in Scout helicopters on search and destroy missions in the southern part of East Falkland known ss ASSOCIATION as Lafonia. The British feared that the stragglers, if not found, could be reinforced by a paratroop drop from the Argentine mainland...
Nicholson watched men dive into the burning waters with life jackets to rescue their comrades. Helicopters ignored the fire and smoke to hoist men out. Spotting life rafts drifting back into the blaze around the Sir Galahad, four helicopter pilots flew behind the vessel and turned their aircraft into gigantic fans: flying low, they used the downdraft of their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center...
...pilots of the Argentine squadron that sank the British destroyer Coventry last month flew into battle repeating the prayers of the Rosary over the open microphones of their radios. An Argentine antiaircraft gunner in Port Stanley described how he shot down a British Harrier: " 'Holy Mother of God'-and bang, bang, I knocked it down from heaven." A wounded 18-year-old Argentine conscript lay dying this week, but confided to the medic treating him, "I pray to God that I get better soon and go back to fight...