Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 7,500 Cuban soldiers, routed the F.N.L.A. in one battle after another on the northern front. The most important town to fall into M.P.L.A. hands was the provincial capital of Uige (formerly Carmona). Once considered impregnable, the F.N.L.A. stronghold was abandoned without a fight after an M.P.L.A. rocket assault. After the fall of Uige, the M.P.L.A. captured the nearby airfield of Ngage, which had been the F.N.L.A.'s major supply point for arms from neighboring Zaïre. The M.P.L.A. claimed to have seized a string of towns in northern Angola, including Caracassala, Cangala, Samba and Vista Alegre...
...announcing the collapse of Lebanon's Cease Fire No. 12, which had kept political and sectarian violence down for most of the past month. Over the Independence Day weekend - normally a time of parties, parades and speeches praising the country's ethnic harmony - rival militias fought rocket, mortar and machine-gun battles along the front dividing Beirut's Moslem and Christian communities. Hundreds of kidnapings were reported by both sides. At week's end the fighting, which spilled over into the downtown banking and hotel district, had claimed more than 100 lives, bringing the eight-month...
...limited tactical victory the week before in the city's worst violence to date, and neither side gave up any key positions during last week's ceasefire. Christian Phalangists did leave some of the luxury hotels they had occupied in downtown Beirut but held on to the rocket-battered 26-story Holiday Inn. Leftists refused to budge from their commanding perch in the nearby 30-story, unfinished Murr Tower. Public cynicism about the cease-fire deepened when Karami's attempt to collect heavy weapons from both sides produced nothing. Kidnaping continued, and snipers killed...
...anything that moved in the center of the city. Some five blocks north, in the gilded Corniche area on the Mediterranean, right-wing Christian Phalangist forces occupied the Holiday Inn and other hotels and began firing from the luxury bedrooms in a desperate effort to hold ground. Answering rocket blasts tore apart the Inn's top two floors. Banks, shops and business offices were shuttered, few besides gunmen ventured onto the streets and about the only traffic along the once thronged boulevards consisted of armored cars and ambulances. After seven months of continual outbursts of violence across Lebanon, Beirut...
Harvard came out charging after halftime, and Acorn followed up a rebounded shot with a low rocket into the nets at 1:46. Acorn's tally was all the Crimson needed for the win, as defensemen Kevin Jiggetts, Ralph Booth, Geoff Hargadon, Mark Zimering, Matt Bowyer and Chris Saunders contained Dartmouth's attack...