Word: repelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova, after hearing of the attack, recalled his ambassador from Managua and put the armed forces on general alert along the 500-mile border with Nicaragua. Having conferred with U.S. Ambassador John Ferch, Suazo Cordova said the army would "use all necessary measures to repel the aggression." Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called the Honduran attack an "invasion" and blamed...
...tugboat that has been christened the Greenpeace, will rendezvous with other ships to protest French nuclear tests in the South Pacific expected to be held in October. In a sharply worded statement immediately following the ship's departure, Mitterrand vowed to continue testing in the area and to repel all protests "by force if necessary." Greenpeace officials have said that the group would abide by the twelve-mile barrier imposed by France, but New Zealand's Lange was dismayed by the warning. The threat, he said, "reflects the consistent ly insensitive attitude of the French...
...Texas raider ran into a totally determined foe in Unocal Chairman Fred Hartley. His company managed to repel Pickens primarily with a $3.6 billion offer to buy up part of its outstanding stock for $72 a share, compared with the raider's bid of $54. Ordinarily Pickens would have responded by simply cashing in his 12% share of the company and walking away with a fat profit. Unocal made him exempt from the offer, however, which was a daring strategy since companies generally presume that the law requires them to treat all stockholders equally. Yet in a surprising reversal...
...declaring a return to unilateral American action, if necessary, in defense of Western interests. That doctrine rested on the emergence of a rapid deployment force. Unfortunately, the force turned out neither rapid nor deployable. It enjoys a vigorous theoretical existence in southern Florida, whence it is poorly situated to repel the Red Army...
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...