Word: harpoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harpoon missile sank at least two Libyan patrol boats and fired on three other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...
...night." At 9:26 p.m., two A-6 Intruders roared from the deck of the America. They flew toward a Libyan attack boat that was moving toward the U.S. armada. When the vessel got within 40 miles of U.S. ships, the A-6 jets let fly with Harpoon missiles that skimmed along the sea and rammed into the Libyan boat, setting it ablaze...
Once in the nasty nest, Katt quickly realizes his predicament and enlists the aid of his neighbor, played by the hilariously deadpan Wendt. Armed with a harpoon gun and wearing goggles, Harold and Katt, himself clad in army greens and jump boots, approach the evil closet. However, in the process of hunting monsters, Katt is pulled through the door and carried back to Vietnam where he discovers that a dead soldier buddy of his has been the root of all his residential difficulties. (I swear. This is for real.) All turns out well, amazingly enough, and the flick winds...
...answer is that Clancy, 37, studied the major unclassified books dealing with Soviet submarines, such as Combat Fleets of the World and Norman Polmar's Guide to the Soviet Navy. Another important resource was the $9.95 war game Harpoon, devised as an instruction manual for Navy ROTC cadets, which comes with a 40-page rule book of strategy and tactics for Soviet-American naval engagements. The author also interviewed former submariners who are now operating the Baltimore Gas & Electric nuclear power plant near his home in Huntingtown, Md. "I didn't get kissed by the muse," he says...
...apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...