Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...besides speaking for her volunteer organization, Hineni, she leads consciousness-raising classes, is finishing a book, writes pamphlets (e.g., Meaningful Sex-A Jewish View) and answers 600 to 700 letters a month. Occasionally Jungreis will boldly park her "heritage" van outside a Hare Krishna or Divine Light Mission outpost and with a loudspeaker try to coax young Jewish converts into leaving...
...particularly exposed to Soviet military power. In the past two years, the Soviet Union has garrisoned about 10,000 ground troops on four islands north of Japan. The Soviet Union seized the islands at the 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...
...past few years Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. has been under siege. The place has borne an uncanny resemblance to the rebel outpost attacked by Darth Vader's forces in The Empire Strikes Back, one of Fox's biggest box office smashes. Flush with profits from that film, Star Wars, Alien and other blockbusters, the studio has been pursued by a flock of acquisition-minded outsiders, most notably Chris-Craft Industries, which holds 22% of Fox's stock. But the winner in the Fox hunt may be a new entry: Denver Oilman Marvin Davis...
...from Pakistan. In plain words, it is with active American and Chinese participation that armed formations are brought into Afghan territory from Pakistan. American politicians have not concealed that they would like to see the Afghanistan situation turn this country, traditionally friendly to the Soviet Union, into a hostile outpost of imperialist forces on the southern border of the U.S.S.R...
Some of this gear seems to be military. Circling at an altitude of about 320 km (200 miles), Salyut provides an ideally situated outpost for keeping an eye on military-related activities on the earth. Indeed, U.S. intelligence sources note that the Soviets have sent four unmanned satellites into orbit during the past three weeks, including one electronic eavesdropping vehicle. The frenzy is presumably part of their effort to keep tab on the war in the Persian Gulf...