Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rhodesia's Defense Minister Roger Hawkins justified the attacks on the ground that "terrorist incursions from Mozambique were increasing; it was essential to take action in self-defense." The guerrillas have traditionally infiltrated across the border to launch offensives during the December-January wet season, when thicker vegetation provides added cover. Some 3,000 guerrillas were thought to be preparing to move into Rhodesia from the camps...
...plane ticket home, I'm set. Strains of "Alvin and the Chipmunks sing the songs of Christmas" will soon be vying with Dad's classical music for stereo time; hte battle looms. I'm not climbing the walls to leave yet; but this weekend, when my roommate and I launch the first annual "Chocolate Chip Cookie Uncooked Dough and Finished Product" munch-out, the official count-down will begin. Unofficially, it's 16 days until Christmas...
...Among the skeptics was the army's chief of staff, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, who defied a gag order from Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and gave an interview to the Hebrew daily Yedioth Aharonoth, in which he offered a "worst case" scenario. Gur suggested that Sadat was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Israeli-occupied Sinai, similar to the one that started the 1973 October War. The general warned all Israelis to be "cautious and alert" while the visit was in progress...
...weapons systems, notably the long-range Backfire bomber and the SS-18 rocket, which can carry eight independently targetable warheads. Another Administration nemesis (also a Democrat), former SALT Negotiator Paul Nitze, has declared that by 1985, when SALT II would expire, the U.S.S.R. would be in a position to launch three times as many land-based nuclear warheads as the U.S., and the U.S. Minuteman missile system will be vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike. Says Nitze: "We are locked into inferiority, and I don't know...
...Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom brawl and winds up in jail. Jail turns out to do him a lot of good, because it is there that trainers discover Bobby's boxing talent (he isn't a good fighter yet, but he's got the instinck...), and launch him into training for the all-impressive boxing career which follows...