Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebanese authorities estimated that just before the latest cease-fire took effect, 20 to 30 shells a minute were raining down on West Beirut and its suburbs. From dawn to dusk Israeli gunboats and hilltop artillery traded fire with Palestinian fighters perched on trucks mounted with Katyusha rocket launchers. The P.L.O.'s hit-and-run tactics proved more effective than in previous skirmishes. According to P.L.O. officials, some 25 Israeli vehicles were destroyed by P.L.O. rockets. The Presidential Palace in Baabda and the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Yarze were also damaged...
...lateral gap high on a wall, the shape of a huge expressionless mouth. When the twelve bombs hit the drab, gray structure, six people were killed and 20 injured. Two female patients sitting in the lounge were sliced to pieces by the shrapnel. It could have been worse. A rocket that hit the children's ward got entangled in a blanket and miraculously never went...
...Columbia's next flight, scheduled for Nov. 11, when it will carry aloft two communications satellites-one American, the other Canadian. And even if Columbia passes this milestone, other questions will persist. NASA's initial justification for building a vehicle that wedded the technology of planes and rockets was to reduce the cost of space travel. However, the calculations depended on projections of extremely heavy traffic into space, with flights as frequent as every two weeks. Now, as a result of spiraling costs, scant demand from private industry for cargo space and the unexpectedly long turnaround time...
...Lebanon as a base from which to launch rocket attacks and terrorist missions on Israel is also conveniently over-looked. Critics of the Israeli invasion claim that the PLO has adhered to last year's cease fire. Yet several PLO commando raids have since been thwarted. More important, Israeli military strategists were shocked at the number and sophistication of weapons held by Palestinians captured in Lebanon...
...donkeys to carry our backpacks, but nonetheless had a difficult time reaching the top of the pass that led back out of the Panjshir Valley. As we reached the summit, we saw before us a seemingly unending stream of small guerrilla pack trains, each laden with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, burlap sacks of ammunition, mortars and AK-47s. The horses stumbled as they tried to climb the zigzagging paths...