Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monroe County Library, and the Miami Herald decided to hold one of their book-and-author events in Key West. The local luminaries gladly volunteered to divulge an opinion or two. The quiet little chat over coffee cups that was planned turned into a verbal extravaganza after a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., travel agency put together a package tour. "It ended up an incredible thing," says Travel Agent Judy Twyford. "People don't want to just sit by the pool any more, they want to get together and talk. This is one of the best-moving things...
...Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (for protecting a money-losing Amtrak route through his state); Democratic Presidential Contender John Glenn and his Ohio colleague...
...struck. In the early hours of the morning, they set off a mortar barrage, scoring direct hits on barracks where government soldiers were sleeping. Some army troops scattered in panic. Within eight hours, the guerrillas had overrun the chain-link fence and barbed-wire perimeter, but they abandoned the fort at nightfall. Several days later, the rebels reportedly released 158 captured soldiers and civilians. Salvadoran military officials claimed that 100 government troops were killed in the fighting, but hospital officials and villagers who witnessed a mass burial reported that at least 160 had died. It was the largest toll...
...been added to the practical difficulties: a chemical agent has been embedded in the fabric to protect troops from nighttime detection by enemy heat-seeking infrared devices. But this precludes the use of starch. "It hangs like a pair of pajamas," moans Specialist Fourth Class Richard Russell of Fort Benning, Ga. Although new recruits are given their uniforms, enlisted men have to purchase them at a cost of $16.30 for the pants, $14.75 for the shirt and $31.13 for the field jacket...
Officers have little sympathy with the latest complaints. Says Captain Allan Havrilla at Fort Lewis, Wash...