Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coastal assault began swiftly as the invading column, including some 100 tanks and an equal number of personnel carriers, closed in on the port of Tyre. At the same time, Israeli landing craft and helicopters surprised the defend ers by placing troops and even tanks as far north as the Zahrani River, 30 miles north of the border. P.L.O. guerrillas held their positions as long as they could and then dispersed. Some stayed in Tyre, while others went to refugee camps or into the hills to do battle as small guerrilla units...
...last, the climactic battle for the Falklands was on. Just ten weeks after Argentina seized the desolate South Atlantic islands, the 9,000 British troops encamped on the hills above Port Stanley launched an all-out assault on the 7,500 Argentines dug in around the capital. The intention was, as an official in London put it, to hit the Argentine garrison "with...
...what British Defense Minister John Nott described as a "brilliant surprise attack," Royal Marine commandos and paratroopers overran Argentine positions just before daybreak, coming to within five miles of Port Stanley. Many of the young Argentine defenders were asleep in their foxholes as the British struck. The first things they saw, said Nott, "were the blackened faces of the British troops in the trenches with them...
...attack, while Harrier jets bombed the garrison in, as the British Defense Ministry put it, a final "softening-up operation." Interrupting the broadcast of a Mass being celebrated by Pope John Paul II (see following story), Argentine, television broadcast a communique that accused the British of "indiscriminately" bombing Port Stanley. It said that two civilian residents of the island capital had been killed and four others wounded...
Last week, after details of her complaint appeared in the Harvard Crimson and other newspapers, Walcott spoke out from his home in Port of Spain, Trinidad. "The charge is unjust," he said. In his version of the encounter, "This girl mentioned that she had written an erotic poem. Later I asked her what she had done for the weekend and she said she went with her boyfriend. I made some quip about that, but there was no intention to be in any way offensive. And if she felt I was, then she could have cut me short or walked away...