Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeless and forced the government to open refugee camps further inland. Many villagers have not been able to return to their homes. Pingmeng's 20-bed hospital, which was abandoned after the 1979 war, still bears the scars of the fighting. Other buildings have been damaged by Vietnamese mortar rounds. On a single day last April, Chinese officials claim, 120 shells fired from across the border landed in Pingmeng. Townspeople reported that a month ago 13 rounds of Vietnamese rifle fire struck the town. Many fled to nearby shelters within the valley's limestone walls. The only casualty...
...road near Cifuentes, a short distance inside Honduras, when their car was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from a position on the Nicaraguan side of the border, killing the two men instantly. The Sandinistas had been harassing the road for nearly a month with machine-gun, mortar and grenade fire, killing at least five people in previous incidents. The firing was part of a campaign to secure the hills around Jalapa, a strategically located town of 10,000 in the tobacco-growing area of northern Nicaragua...
...Begin government's dilemma is that it does not know what to do about the occupation. Last week, amid a series of scattered bombings and mortar attacks, several more Israelis were wounded in Lebanon. A group called the Lebanese National Resistance Front, whose members reportedly range from far left to extreme right, claimed responsibility for the incidents. The Israeli armed forces acknowledged that the attacks were not made by Palestinians or Syrians but by Lebanese, though the Front undoubtedly receives some support from the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...explosion, lights in the Peruvian capital (pop. 5 million) flickered, then failed. In the darkness, terrified inhabitants were shaken by 20 more blasts, including one that gutted a Bayer pharmaceutical factory, causing more than $100 million in property damage. It could have been much worse: police later discovered a mortar hidden under a bridge in range of the downtown Government Palace. Authorities believe that the terrorists intended to use it to hurl sticks of dynamite into the room where President Fernando Belaúnde Terry and his wife would be eating dinner...
...door, pistol in hand. The three of us and Karen De Young of the Washington Post assumed a position on the floor of the Jeep like quadruplets in utero, with our luggage stacked over our heads against the windows. For five minutes, the Jeep shook from the mortar rounds landing near by. Bullets ricocheted off the gravel road...