Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, so I think 14 years is a fair amount of time to give prospective candidates." He added, "I don't think anyone can deny the fact that had it not been for the Marcos family, the chances are that the situation would not be what it is today." Mortar fire outside the palace punctuated his remark...
Assaults into Nicaragua by anti-Sandinista guerrillas have in the past provoked occasional Nicaraguan shelling of border towns in neighboring Honduras, where the U.S.-backed contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force maintain their base camps. The most recent raid, late last week, drew an unusually heavy Nicaraguan mortar barrage near the town of Arenales; one Honduran soldier was killed and eight others were wounded. In response, the Honduran air force dispatched, for the first time, some of its U.S.-made F-86 jet fighters to attack Nicaraguan positions. The Hondurans said the aircraft fired on Sandinista troop concentrations and shot...
...maintained that the Reagan proposals do not go far enough in reducing tax breaks for business. Charles Schultze, who was chief economic adviser to President Carter, took exception to Feldstein's analysis. Said he: "I think the bill probably gives too much attention to stimulating investment in bricks and mortar as opposed to cleaning up a lot of the distortions in the tax code that are slowing the economy...
...other up to teach the quasiprimitive Borneans some new dance steps, and at another they end up, reports the author, so hung over that "someone seemed to have inserted a pestle into my cerebellum during the night, and was now using the inside top of my skull as a mortar." A native politely informs him, "You got drunks like a man who still lives in his mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks in the ground for foods." Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs a dry, self...
...Newry operation--dubbed "Bloody Thursday" by the British press--began when two masked I.R.A. men hijacked a truck. Later, the makeshift mortar tubes were bolted onto the flatbed and the vehicle was then driven into town and parked in a vacant lot close to the R.U.C. station. The nine metal tubes on the truck--each 6 ft. long and 6 in. in diameter--were linked by detonating wires, suggesting to police that they had been fired by timing devices. Despite the apparent sophistication of the weapon, not all the shells found their target. Some fell in front of the station...