Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side." So said Group Captain Colin Adams, commander of the British Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus. Adams was talking about a raid launched against his base last week by a small group of pro-Libyan terrorists who, police believe, arrived by car. Firing 60-mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, the attackers concentrated on well-populated areas, including a beach and a sports complex. Miraculously, casualties were limited to two injured women and a slightly damaged building. Several hours later the Unified Nasserite Organization, a previously unknown group, claimed in Beirut that it had carried...
...Tanks, rocket launchers, and troops could indeed be seen in Paris, but only on Bastille Day as they paraded down the Champs Elysee into the Place de la Concorde. Moreover, the bombing of a Paris police station, or of a random VW, was no more extraordinary today than it was two to five years...
...organization ETA has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed 25 people, including ten Civil Guardsmen who died in a car bombing two weeks ago in Madrid. Last week ETA, the Spanish acronym for "Basque Homeland and Liberty," sent its latest message of brazen defiance: half a dozen antitank rocket grenades, fired from a parked car, hit the Defense Ministry in the Spanish capital, injuring nine people. On Saturday, two Guardsmen were killed in suspected ETA attacks near the northern city of San Sebastian...
Investigators say the accident occurred when ajoint in a solid rocket booster failed and causedsuperheated gases to burn through the externalfuel tank containing liquid hydrogen and liquidoxygen, triggering the explosion...
...resumption of shuttle flights, moreover, will be delayed into 1988. NASA conceded that its optimistic target date of July 1987 will not be met because the redesign of the boosters is proving more complicated than expected. Explained John Thomas, manager of the rocket-design team: "With so much at stake, we're going to take all the time that's required...