Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 50 invaders leaped from the vehicles and opened fire with Belgian FAL rifles, 40-mm grenade launchers and Soviet RPG-7 and Chinese RPG-2 rocket launchers. Startled troops, reinforced by some 500 police, fought back. Nearly 30 hours later, when the shooting finally ended, 28 invaders lay dead and 20 were under guard; nine soldiers and police were killed and 53 wounded...
...startling twelve-point proposal was conveyed first to Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador, who passed it on to the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After nine years of refusing to lay down their arms, the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week declared their willingness to participate in El Salvador's presidential balloting and abide by the results, win or lose. The F.M.L.N. asked that the March 19 polling be postponed until Sept. 15 so the rebels would have more time to rally supporters. The group, which tried to sabotage the last five national...
...proved a special challenge to Western reporters who have sneaked in, flown in under fire and otherwise struggled to report a story purposely shrouded in mystery. Desmond's first trip inside the country provides a brief but penetrating glimpse at a city not yet ready to lay down the guns. "Next time I go it will be different," says Desmond, "but how, I do not know...
...Roman Catholic academics launching a public broadside against the Pope. But last week's outburst was exceptional both for the numbers -- 167 theologians from West Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland -- and for the timing. The so-called Cologne Declaration came on the heels of protests by clergy and lay people over John Paul II's choice of conservative European Archbishops...
...attempts to control scholars. "When the Pope does that which is not part of his office, he cannot, in the name of catholicity, demand obedience," stated the lengthy text. The Vatican Curia was also accused of aggravating "conflicts in the church by means of rigid discipline." The clergy and lay theologians were especially vexed by the Pontiff's treatment of the birth-control ban as one of the "fundamental pillars of Christian teaching," maintaining that it is supported by neither the Bible nor church tradition...