Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blow to the resistance movement, it brought little respite for the Israelis. The next day, two Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush. The same day, a car exploded on a road south of Tyre, killing five Lebanese civilians; the vehicle had apparently been heading for an Israeli outpost or convoy, but blew up prematurely. In Zrariyah, the governor of southern Lebanon, Halim Fayad, issued a warning: "New suicide attacks will be launched. We are ready to avenge this massacre...
When Rear Admiral John Byng in 1756 failed to repel a French siege of the English naval outpost on Minorca, his superiors were at least partly to blame since they had given the officer an undersized fleet. Nonetheless, Byng was executed for neglect of duty, which prompted Voltaire to observe that among the British "it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others...
...supply vessel with five Alaskans on board, accidentally strayed inside Soviet territorial waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched formal protests in Washington and Moscow last week did the Soviets become cooperative in releasing the Americans and their ship. Captain Tabb Thorns and his crew of four were finally put aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman during...
Dallas' business community had been gearing up for the convention as a showcase in which to present the beauty and attractiveness of the city to the rest of the country. Dallas deserved to be a first-class city, not a regional outpost, and here was its big chance. The city promised the citizens that no public money would be spent on the convention costs would be met through private sources, meaning wealthy Texas REpublicans, oil companies, a local newspaper, and others. Throughout the downtown area, a logo welcoming the Republicans to Dallas (an elephant inside a large "D" for Dallas...
Government authorities answer that they now screen all proposals for new factories near the capital and offer tax incentives for moves elsewhere, but that is clearly not enough. No corporation is eager to move to a remote outpost; until some do, there are no jobs to attract workers. That applies to the government too. "Why does Pemex (the national oil monopoly) have headquarters here when not a single barrel of oil is produced in Mexico City?" asks Pablo Emilio Madero, head of the opposition National Action Party. "The same