Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refreshing to know that no matter what I say, I can't be expelled from the country or barred from getting back in." David Beckwith was glad to get back too. During six months in the Middle East he had been under machine-gun and mortar fire in Lebanon and Morocco. He had never been shot, however, until last week when he was mugged on Capitol Hill in Washington. He is now recovering from a stomach wound and pondering the ironies of chance. Barrett Seaman, moving from Chicago to Bonn, is aghast at the German bureaucracy. "The number...
Urban Machine. To the chagrin of some Parisians, the competition was won by two foreigners, Italy's Renzo Piano and Britain's Richard Rogers. In the midst of Beaubourg's crumbling brick and mortar, they proceeded to construct what they called a "living urban machine." They planned a six-story building to be formed literally inside out -structural supports on the outside, along with a formidable array of ducts, gantries, movable mezzanines and color-coded pipes for heating, electricity, air conditioning and fire control. Attached to one external facade is a huge escalator with transparent walls, illustrating...
...hold the villages but venture cautiously into the desert for fear of ambush; Polisario fighters as a result roam freely over much of the territory, boastfully but inaccurately declaring it "liberated." The guerrillas, though, have carried the war into both Morocco and Mauritania. Last June Polisario even attempted a mortar attack on the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (see map). Although the guerrillas lost 200 men, including Polisario's founder, Mohammed Wall, 28, in the battle, they consider the shelling of the Mauritanian capital a great victory. They have brought Mauritania close to economic disaster with periodic attacks...
Israel's most secure border-the one facing Lebanon-has unexpectedly become its most volatile. While the rest of civil-war-torn Lebanon was quiet last week, intermittent mortar fire continued in the south between the Moslem town of Bint Jebail and the Christian settlement of Ain Ebel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, insisted that his forces were free to regroup in that area (see following story). Israel so opposes this, as well as the idea of having Syrian soldiers on a second Israeli border-even as Arab peace keepers-that the Jerusalem government convened its "war cabinet," deployed...
...then after Harvard had gone wild to tie the score, for a second time, midway through the third period, the Wilsons watched from the bench as, with 1:40 remaining, defenseman Steve Roberts fired a mortar from the right point that cleanly beat Brian Petrovek and gave the Friars the victory, their sixth of the young season without a single blemish...