Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real truth in the midst of veiled and chaotic maneuvering. Why not tape those conversations with the Governor? What did it matter when one was battling for a just cause against an unscrupulous adversary? In Bobby's view of political combat, enemies often must be fought on their terms. The good of the nation and a higher morality demanded it. History would understand...
...December, Sandinista forces evacuated or burned between 25 and 40 Miskito villages, allegedly killed an estimated 200 inhabitants and resettled 8,500 to 10,000 more at internment camps in the Nicaraguan interior near Rosita and Siuna. Reason for the Sandinista campaign: the Miskitos, some of whom fought alongside the Sandinistas to overthrow Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, had begun to chafe under Sandinista rule. Some were even known to have joined forces with anti-Sandinista exiles across the Honduran border...
Police first grew suspicious when ZAPU insurgents, who had fought grudgingly alongside ZANU forces during their seven-year guerrilla war against the white-dominated, government of what was formerly Rhodesia, did not turn over all their arms as required when the strife ended in 1979. After a series of armed robberies in the Bulawayo area last year, police arrested a number of former ZAPU guerrillas and persuaded them to reveal the location of the caches...
...rescue ships fought heavy seas and 70-m.p.h. winds to continue the search for survivors of the Ocean Ranger's 84-man crew, which included at least 14 Americans, a Soviet freighter 65 miles east of the rig radioed that it was taking on water and listing badly. Before dawn Tuesday, the 4,262-ton Mikhanik Tarasov-bound from the St. Lawrence River port of Trois Rivières to Leningrad with a load of newsprint-slipped beneath the waves, taking all but five of its 37-man crew to their deaths. By week's end 40 bodies...
They could not have picked a better time to get hot. The Crimson,s inspired play carried it to two hard-fought one-goal victories in last week's Beanpot tournament, and the squad will get a chance to repeat that feat this weekend when it travels to Dartmouth for the Ivy League Tourney...