Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that we can, for in an increasingly Green-conscious world, if we don't go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, we may as well not go to the polls...
...hours, the drama played out on the world's television screens, and for a while it seemed as if it would provoke direct U.S. military intervention in El Salvador's ugly, decade-old civil war. Twelve Green Berets from Fort Bragg, N.C., part of a U.S. advisory team in El Salvador, were holed up on the fourth floor of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador's wealthy Escalon district, while about 20 heavily armed young guerrillas, who had seemingly blundered into the hotel, roamed the floors above and below them...
...dithering during October's aborted coup in Panama, quickly convened a meeting of a National Security Council emergency group and ordered a small contingent of the supersecret Delta Force into San Salvador. At one point Bush even made the embarrassing claim that the U.S. commandos had "liberated" the Green Berets...
...group of rebels was apparently trapped by the army as it moved along a ravine behind the Sheraton, and fled into the shelter of the lobby. The guerrillas probably did not know that among the guests were the Green Berets and Joao Baena Soares, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, who was trying to work out a cease-fire. As the rebels took up residence in the Sheraton's VIP Tower, Salvadoran commandos hurriedly escorted Soares out of the hotel and drove him away in an armored car. The Green Berets were not so fortunate. Armed with...
...entire operation was conducted by Salvadoran soldiers. Only at the end, when the Green Berets ran out, did the U.S. forces become involved. The actual number of U.S. commandos sent to El Salvador was thought to be small, although a much larger force was positioned outside the country...