Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed help, and in a hurry. But a Soviet military intelligence analyst who wanted to defect to the West recently was almost not allowed to. When this official approached the gates of the U.S. embassy in Tunis, he attempted to make himself understood to the Marine guard. The befuddled guard pointed toward the visa section. The official dutifully took his place at the end of a lengthy queue of Tunisians submitting their visa applications. Soon, he became jumpy; the KGB might already be on his tail. He approached the officer in charge, who promptly ushered the upstart back...
...loan to the Bahamian government as part of "Operation Bat." This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep, the 1985 "Hat Trick I" operation, some $27 million worth of drugs was confiscated...
...anybody who stood in his way. Retired New York City Police Officer Edward del Pino, 55, seeing panicky passengers stampeding past him on the ferry's deck, rushed inside in time to see Gonzalez slash a woman to death. Pino, en route home from his job as a security guard, pulled out a .38-cal. pistol and fired a shot into the air. Ordering Gonzalez to hit the deck, he warned him, "You move and you're dead!" But by then two were dead (a 61-year-old Staten Island man and a 71-year-old Manhattan woman) and nine...
...bowler hats and orange sashes marched through the north of Belfast, their bright silken banners gilded by the setting sun. As the Sunday-suited men strode past, to the tune of their stirring ancestral anthem, The Sash, a British army helicopter hovered overhead and riot police stood guard before the 20-ft.-high screens they had just erected. Later that evening, 22 miles away, another group of men in tribal orange filed through the village of Downpatrick and gathered on a field of freshly mown hay. "We have our backs to the wall," an aged Protestant clergyman exhorted his flock...
...current troubles are behind the almost palpable increase in white unease. In some rural areas, particularly in the Limpopo River valley near the Zimbabwe border, white farmers have formed home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them...