Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guards but, as instructed, did not harm al-Wazir's family. By 4 a.m. they had returned to their ship. A few days later, they landed safely in Haifa harbor. An ironic footnote: al-Wazir had plotted a similar operation in 1985 that aimed to land a hit squad on Israeli soil, sailing first by boat from Algeria, then from mid-sea by dinghy. Israeli missile boats intercepted the ship, aborting the plan...
...Sandinistas' prefabricated revolutionary socialism for many of Nicaragua's economic woes. He turns to baseball, a game made popular in Nicaragua by U.S. Marines in the early part of the century, to explain what he feels needs to happen. "What do you do when a pitcher is getting hit out of the ball park?" he asks. "You change him and try someone with a fresh...
...short films by ten prominent directors, each one spitballing on themes from the opera repertory. If, however, you are a connoisseur of rock videos, with their images like Day- Glo wallpaper after a food fight, you will feel right at home. Watching three of the segments (based on hit songs from Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino and Rigoletto), purists could sneer at Aria as MTV -- Movies Trash Verdi. But Producer Don Boyd and his crew want to revive the old music's passion and fun, not to mock its petrified conventions. And as often...
...antiship missile. Chandler immediately ordered his crew to fire a hail of aluminum chaff into the air, which deflected the missile by confusing its radar guidance system. Moments later a second ship in the U.S. gulf convoy, the frigate Simpson, unleashed an SM-1 missile. It scored a direct hit, sinking the Joshan, killing 15 Iranian crewmen and wounding...
...strike was in retaliation for damage suffered two weeks ago by the ^ American frigate Samuel B. Roberts after it hit an Iranian mine in international waters. Ten American crewmen were injured in the explosion and fire, the worst casualty toll since the accidental Iraqi attack about a year ago on the U.S.S. Stark that claimed 37 lives...