Word: northernmost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the Palestinians began to fight back with small arms and a few rocket-propelled grenades. Their resistance may have had some effect: Friday morning, the militiamen had begun to fall back from their northernmost penetration of the camps. At 9 a.m., the two Oukli brothers were able to return to some parts of Shatila from the Gaza Hospital area without encountering any of the killers. When the Ouklis reached their home, they found a pile of 15 dead, mostly their relatives, outside the door...
...battle zone. Rubinger photographed Halevy interviewing Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon at a forward military command post. One reporter found himself in the right place, right from the start. TIME'S Leroy Aarons had been dispatched protectively by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman to Metulla, Israel's northernmost town. On Sunday morning, one of the three main waves of the Israeli invasion force came rumbling through Metulla...
...with possessing an unloaded revolver. No habeas corpus for Bobby Sands, only 14 years in prison. And don't you know that the Irish had their civil rights movement? People like Bernadette Devlin protested--peacefully--the political, social and especially economic discrimination they were subject to in the six northernmost counties of Ireland. And it didn't do a thing, except that the Protestants, and pretty soon the British troops, began to shoot at them. Don't you know that unemployment is higher, that wages are lower, that life is mean, for the Irish who live in Northern Ireland...
...close of World War II, but Japan still claims them. This newly strengthened Soviet outpost includes Mi-24 assault helicopters, among the most sophisticated antitank gunships in the world and therefore an obvious threat to the Japanese armored units stationed just across the Nemuro Strait on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido...