Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Gathers' first collapse, he underwent a series of tests that revealed a cardiac arrhythmia -- an irregular heartbeat that can indicate anything from normal palpitations to a life-threatening condition. Gathers was ordered to report for weekly testing and treated with Inderal, one of a class of drugs called beta blockers. These inhibit the effects of adrenaline and smooth out the rhythms of the heart. Side effects include fatigue and sluggishness...
...contains hundreds of audiotapes, including The Chipmunks Sing Marvin Hamlisch. When a disciple commits a grievous offense against the rules of the order, she faces fearsome punishment, including "the Ordeal of the Thousand Broadway Show Tunes." As a rule, though, piped-in images are perceived as comforting. During her irregular childhood with Zoyd, Prairie sometimes wishes that she could be a member of "some family in a car, with no problems that couldn't be solved in half an hour of wisecracks and commercials." Near the end of the novel, when Prairie gets to meet her mother, nothing will...
...Defense Forces might have had of making a coordinated counterattack on invasion night. "The whole infrastructure of our forces was destroyed in the first hour," admitted Major Ivan Gaytan, a top P.D.F. planner. Though some Pentagon planners had anticipated 70 U.S. military deaths, the figure was 23. Noriega's irregular Dignity Battalions raised more havoc than expected with sniper fire and hit-and-run attacks in Panama City streets. But when Lieut. Colonel Luis del Cid, Manuel Noriega's most trusted military aide, waved a white flag over his fortress in Chiriqui province and Noriega deserted his fighters to save...
...Assembly building. Arias was unhurt. Mortar shells landed near the U.S. Southern Command Headquarters at Quarry Heights, and fighting erupted at a nearby police station. Thurman said that the fighting seemed to be "centrally controlled" and that Noriega himself might be "the guiding force." He estimated that 1,800 irregular troops might be involved...