Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amman resembled an armed fortress, mostly out of fear that Arafat or Hussein might be assassinated. Green-bereted soldiers stood watch on rooftops, roads were blocked, and helicopters clacked overhead. At the Regency Palace Hotel, where Arafat stayed, P.L.O. aides tested the food before it was served. The city held a bitter nostalgia for host and guest alike: in what became known as the "Black September" of 1970, Hussein's army began to expel the P.L.O.'s guerrillas from Jordan...
...Sikhs. Wanted for arrest due to his directives to kill given Hindu leaders and Sikh moderates. Bhindranwale sought protection in the Golden Temple. There, he sent out directives to kill more individuals, organized military training exercises preparing the extremists for war, and converted the sacred shrine into a veritable fortress, with sophisticated weapons and supplies smuggled in from outside sources (some of these sources have allegedly been connected to India's neighbor and greatest security threat, Pakistan...
...Sikh agitation for greater autonomy and put an end to an extremist movement calling for an independent Sikh nation, Mrs. Gandhi had sent the army into Punjab and into the most sacred of all Sikh shrines, the Golden Temple, which Sikh fanatics had turned into a sort of holy fortress. At least 600 people, including radical Leader Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, 37, were killed in the ensuing battle. Mrs. Gandhi's move was a bold step, and she probably paid for it with her life...
...leave the Liberal Party? The magnitude of its defeat cannot be minimized. Under Pierre Trudeau the Liberal Party had fashioned an electoral coalition made up of women, young people, ethnic minorities, and French-speaking Canadians. Each of the groups spurned John Turner, Mr. Trudeau's successor. The critical electoral fortress of Quebec has been lost. The socialist New Democrat Party regained many supporters that Mr. Trudeau had successfully weaned away. Despite Mr. Turner's courageous decision to seek and win a seat in Western Canada--the one part of the country that remained impervious to Mr. Trudeau's charms...
Pentagon and State Department officials beg the point when they suggest that sturdier barriers might have forced the , terrorists to resort to aerial bombardment. Several Administration officials insist that no embassy, even in Beirut, should be turned into a fortress. Says Weinberger: "The desire is to have an embassy open to the public." Two more serious questions may be why the embassy staff had been transferred on July 31 to the building before security measures were installed, and why the Americans harbored a kind of blind faith in the safety of the new location in Christian East Beirut...