Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another version of events came from Amal, which claimed it had abducted the eleven militiamen in an attack on an S.L.A. outpost. Whatever version was correct, at week's end, at least three of the Finns had been released, according to a U.N. spokesman...
...Moscow, the government newspaper Izvestiya charged that the airport was part of a Western plan to turn "the archipelago into a powerful military outpost." Even the British were not of one mind. Labor M.P. George Foulkes, a member of the opening delegation even though he opposes Westminster's estimated $750 million-a-year defense allocation to protect the islands, declared that the celebration was nothing more than "a load...
...rumbled back into Afghanistan. "Not a shot was fired," a Pakistani officer recalled. "But just in case we didn't believe they meant business, they dropped 80 artillery shells on our positions that night." For the next two days, sporadic tank and artillery fire fell on the Pakistani outpost--and on the morning of the third day, the Pakistanis sent the three deserters back. Says a Pakistani intelligence officer: "There are a lot of changes on the border. The Soviets are now much closer than they have ever been before...
Only infrequently in recent months have the rebels attempted large operations. One sizable attack came three weeks ago, on the slopes of the San Salvador volcano that looms over the capital. Anywhere from 100 to 400 rebels attacked a communications outpost on the mountain, inflicting seven casualties before retreating...
...Turner's fans will get a chance to see her strut her tuff in Mad Max III, the Road Warrior sequel to be released this summer. For the latest installment of the adventure series, set in postapocalypse Australia, Turner, 46, plays Aunty Entity, the hardhearted ruler of a barbaric outpost known as Bartertown. No, love's got nothing to do with it; instead of falling for Swoon Symbol Mel Gibson, 29, Aunty becomes Mad Max's archenemy. Says the leggy singer: "I used to think I'd like to do Cleopatra, but now I really want to play tough women...