Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...landed, carrying the rulers of the five Persian Gulf nations that, along with Saudi Arabia, constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C.).* Fahd and Abdullah emerged onto the shimmering tarmac to greet each arriving sheik and sultan, then escorted him in to meet the King. While white-robed Saudi national guardsmen, armed with machine guns and golden daggers, looked on, the rulers exchanged embraces and sipped cups of hot, aromatic coffee before being whisked off by limousines to their luxurious suites at the Nasseryah Conference Palace...
...trial, including the Hell's Angels and the Puerto Rican liberation group F.A.L.N. Frank Battisti, chief judge of the federal district court in Cleveland, has received his death threats from members of the public. The first came in 1974 after he dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen involved in the Kent State killings. He won more enemies when he ordered desegregation of local schools and when he directed the nearly all-white suburb of Parma to build low-and moderate-income housing. For the past five years, Battisti has had around-the-clock protection from two U.S. marshals...
...airport, each one arriving about half an hour apart so López Portillo could welcome them individually. Heat hung over the airport like a suffocating cloud; the temperature on the tarmac approached 100°. Dressed in long-sleeved uniforms with helmets and combat boots, several hundred presidential guardsmen stood on the steaming runway all day to greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each...
...neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving exploited coffee pickers off the land to make way for copper mining that will enrich him and his fellow oligarchs...
SOUTHERN COMFORT Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Michael Kane Walter Hill and David Giler Hip deep in a Louisiana swamp, the squad of National Guardsmen gets befuddled. According to the map, there shouldn't be a lake around here. But there is, and unless they steal some boats to cross it, they will not reach their objective in time. This they do, which riles the crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game...