Word: gately
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense attache, took up a position at a command post in Sullivan's second-floor office. The Marine guards, clad in flak jackets and under instructions from Sullivan to refrain from firing back with their shotguns, lay down a cloud of tear gas. Attackers, surging against the locked gate like a human battering ram, burst into the compound. Others scaled the embassy's 12-ft. brick walls. From their posts, the Marines appealed over walkie-talkies to Sullivan (code-named "Cowboy") for permission to use their shotguns. His instructions: "If you need to protect yourselves, you may fire...
...neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy's main gate, which a crowd was trying to burst through. I was swept into a group of about 15 people, who crashed the lock and surged into the compound. Suddenly several Khomeini men pushed through the crowd and began shooting in the direction of the embassy, apparently at the attackers. A young...
...impossible to tell exactly where the bullets came from or who was aiming at whom. Meanwhile, everyone was running for cover, ducking in sewer canals, behind trees and cars. As I ran, I saw someone hoist the wounded man over his shoulders and carry him back out the gate...
...taking pictures, a tough-looking gunman in a nylon stocking mask carrying an Uzi submachine gun recognized me as someone he had ordered to leave earlier. He swung his machine gun around and sternly motioned me through the gate. I caught a glimpse of Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi being driven into the compound in a blue Mercedes. The agitated look on his face as he surveyed the scene suggested that he was just beginning to realize how difficult the governing of post-revolutionary Iran was going...
...slalom was a disappointment, however, as Fajtova took a "hike" after missing a gate; and the rest of the skiers either fell or were disqualified. This is the event that usually makes up for the inexperienced cross-country racers, who finished a combined eighth with freshman Missy Holbrook coming in as the first Crimson finisher...