Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis after crisis in Lebanon, from last fall's Sabra and Chatila massacres to the Druse ravages this month, has ironically dulled the Western panic nerve. Once, every new incident chilled observers with the thought that an international free-for-all was around the corner; now, as casualties mount in the "interim" Marine peacekeeping force, and as Marines fire back, violence has come to seem almost like stability...
...story is that the port in Puerto Castilla was developed by a private U.S.-Honduran joint venture that, at the point of failure, miraculously found new financial backing. Whatever the case, without the facility the U.S. would not have been able to land equipment for the Seabees, let alone mount Big Pine...
...Jemison. As Coretta King informed the roaring crowd in Los Angeles last week, her late husband had sought Jemison's counsel before launching the famous Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and with good reason Two and a half years earlier, Jemison, as the young pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., had organized the nation's first bus boycott. His campaign forced the city to integrate seating in its transportation system in just eight days...
Jemison, who remains as pastor of the Mount Zion Church, is trying hard to tap the vast potential of his large but loosely organized and ill-financed denomination. He is moving younger men into key positions and offering women a bigger role. Jemison has dispatched full delegations for the first time in years to meetings of the National and World Councils of Churches. He also hopes to rouse the 26,000 local congregations, concentrated in the South, into mounting an evangelistic crusade to win 3 million new adherents. Not so incidentally, they would also be registered as voters...
...Brink's guard and, in a subsequent Shootout, two local police officers. It was quickly apparent that the attack was not merely a last violent gasp of the radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began a nationwide conspiracy probe that is still going...