Word: harpooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shone brightly as technicians aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Coontz checked over its complement of guided missiles. Suddenly, at 3:05 p.m. last Tuesday, a flash and a roar broke the quiet of the tropic afternoon. Officers on the bridge watched horrified as a 15-ft.-long Harpoon, loaded with high explosives, soared off over the blue-green waters of the Caribbean toward the resort island of St. Croix. It vanished completely...
...Israeli leaders could be more different from one another than the aging, pugnacious Menachem Begin, 67, and the vigorous if sometimes reticent Shimon Peres, 57. Begin was forged by the Holocaust, and carries his fury like the harpoon of Captain Ahab. Peres escaped the scar. The difference is crucial. Begin, looking backward to the genocide, vows with other Israelis: "Never again." But he seems to have little patience with the grievances of the Arabs or understanding of their rights, and too often he shapes a policy that invites attack. Peres, who observes the vow less flamboyantly, seems more open...