Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outskirts of the city, leaving Afghan-manned tanks and Afghan troops with fixed bayonets and automatic rifles in ostensible charge. But Kabul is not yet quiet, or beaten. There is nightly gunfire on the outskirts, and there were two major military incidents during the week. Precisely at noon one day, there was a considerable Shootout a few blocks from the mosque of Haji Yaqub, known as the blue mosque. A house-to-house search by Afghan soldiers and police had been going on in residential streets behind the mosque, long a "suspect" neighborhood, when the shooting broke out between troops...
Members of the People's Front boycotted classes yesterday, on the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. About 200 students attended a noon rally but students contacted yesterday said class attendence was not markedly below normal...
...students picketed in the morning, held a prayer service at noon, and then two students, Paul E. Lyons and Thomas Reed, spilled ashes and pint bottles of their own blood on the door of the office where the TRW recruiters were conducting job interviews...
...group of young men and women nonchalantly kicked a soccer ball outside the gates of the Dominican Republic's embassy in Bogota, Colombia. Inside the compound, Ambassador Diogenes Mallol was entertaining fellow members of the diplomatic corps in celebration of his country's independence day. Around noon, U.S. Ambassador Diego C. Asencio, 48, a Spanish-born career diplomat, said his farewells. Just as he was moving toward his armored Chrysler Imperial limousine, the soccer players pulled automatic weapons from their gym bags and blasted their way through the embassy gates. After a two-hour gun battle with police...
...sickness is easily transmitted, he said, adding, "If two kids are sneezing in the morning, by noon-time the class could be wiped...