Word: raids
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...past 25 years, Boeing of Seattle, Wash., and McDonnell Douglas of St. Louis, Mo., have had a virtual monopoly on sales of passenger jets to U.S. airlines. Last week the American companies sustained a damaging air raid. Airbus Industrie, the European consortium of French, British, West German and Spanish plane builders, announced a $1 billion deal to deliver 28 of its new jets to Pan Am, a longtime Boeing customer. The European aviation industry exulted over the agreement, dubbing it the contract of the century...
Version 2: The scene is an airstrip in Jamastrán, Honduras, recently improved by the U.S. Two armed Americans lift off in a helicopter carrying 36 rockets and a machine gun. It joins three Cessna aircraft in a contra raid on a military school and an electric plant near Santa Clara, ten miles inside Nicaragua. The planes fire 24 rockets, killing a 40-year-old male civilian and three girls. The chopper is shot down, and its three occupants are killed. The Americans were on a combat mission with the knowledge and implicit approval...
...thoughts or dreams," said a Polish retiree. Said a Moscow student: "If it's true, it means Reagan hates all of us, not just our politicians." An elderly Soviet housewife angrily noted that "such words could only come from a person who has never lived through an air raid." But a Hungarian electrician recently discharged from the army had a different view. The President's five-minute warning, he said, provided enough time for a counterattack-and a global nuclear holocaust-to begin. -By John Kohan...
Despite some improvement, the overall performance of El Salvador's army remains "checkered." So testified General Paul Gorman, head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in an appearance last week before a House subcommittee. Indeed, two days earlier, a dawn guerrilla raid on three villages west of San Salvador left 63 civil-defense guards and three civilians dead. Army reinforcements did not arrive until the afternoon, after the fighting had ended...
...meantime, both Iran and Iraq bombed civilian targets on the ground. Iraq mounted a raid on the northern Iranian border town of Baneh, killing several hundred people who had gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the 1963 riots against the Shah. In response, Iran sent shells crashing into Iraq's beleaguered port of Basra; Iraq retaliated by hitting the Iranian oil city of with a single missile, killing twelve people. Some observers thought the activity was a prelude to another, long-awaited &quoet;human wave" offensive by Iran, a view reinforced by a decloration of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini that...