Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks continued, with U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib serving as chief negotiator, there appeared to be just two possible outcomes: 1) a large-scale withdrawal from Lebanon of all or most of the Palestine Liberation Organization's 6,000 fighting men based in West Beirut; 2) an Israeli onslaught against the P.L.O.'s redoubt, leading to an Israeli victory over the P.L.O. and the death or injury of thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians as well...
Against this onslaught were pitted some 2,000 regularly armed Panjshiri and an additional 1,500 to 2,000 guerrillas who had flooded in from neighboring valleys on the promise that they would be issued weapons to aim at the shuravi, the Afghan term for the Soviets. "We were happy when we heard the Soviets were coming," said one guerrilla. "When they were bombing us, there was nothing we could do. Now we have something to shoot...
...federal onslaught on national aid programs seems certain to jeopardize the University's policy by forcing Harvard to pick up an ever greater share of the aid tab in years to come. We can only hope that the University will continue to give equal access in admissions the heavy weight it declined to accord to the morally imperative loan ban and the academically crucial Fogg wing...
...sympathize with the Vermonters' annual battle against the onslaught of mud [May 10]. Bemidji, 240 miles north of Minneapolis, sits in the middle of woods, bogs and lakes and is no newcomer to dealing with mudology. A standing joke around here is let a Volkswagen go ahead of you. Then drive over its roof when it falls into a mudhole...
Considering the Cyclopean onslaught of photographers the royal family must endure, it is rather a quaint sight to catch them squinting into the lens themselves. Like a good sportsman's wife, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, was front and center to watch Prince Philip, 60, in the three-day Royal Windsor Horse Show's carriage-driving contest. The prince, who started racing coaches at 50 after he gave up polo, has been a runner-up four times in the past, but this year he reined supreme. Presented the first-place trophy by his No. 1 fan, Philip smiled...