Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected President, the country plunged even more deeply into violence and deprivation. The suffering has been worsened by a U.S.-backed trade embargo by the Organization of American States designed to pressure the illegal government into restoring Aristide to power. Gasoline and fuel-oil supplies are scarce, and political repression against Aristide's supporters is fierce. More than 400,000 citizens have fled the capital of Port-au-Prince for the countryside. More than 3,300 have been intercepted by Coast Guard cutters as they attempted the risky passage to Florida. An untold...
...save money and fuel and manpower, the Pearl Harbor authorities had recently canceled weekend reconnaissance flights. But they had acquired some new radar equipment, though the National Park Service strongly objected to towers being installed on scenic mountaintops...
Japanese Lieut. Fusata Iida turned to strafe Sands, but the sailor fired another BAR clip, then ducked the bullets that pocked the armory's wall. As Iida's Zero climbed again, gasoline began streaming from his fuel tank. Before takeoff, Iida had said that any pilot whose engine failed should crash his plane into the enemy, so now he turned for a last attack. For one incredible minute, the two enemies faced and fired at each other, Iida from his crippled Zero, Sands with his BAR. Then the Zero nosed into a highway and smashed into pieces...
Landing only for more fuel and ammunition, the two sleepless lieutenants set off for the Marine base at Barber's Point. "We went down and got in the traffic pattern and shot down several planes there," said Taylor, who suffered a severe arm wound. "I know for certain I shot down two planes or perhaps more; I don't know." Official records credited the two of them with downing seven planes, almost one-quarter of all Japanese losses...
...sides in the just-beginning debate denounced the action. Still, it served as further fuel for demonstrations throughout the week...