Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They may no longer be relevant-according to the other factions in Guatemalan politics they are not-but they are apparently considered a risk to someone: last week passing cars fired a rocket and tossed grenades into the home of the Christian Democrats' secretary-general, Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The attack was the third or fourth attempt on his life, he isn't exactly sure about the total. "I don't know why I'm alive at this moment," he says, smiling. "It is a little fluke...
...Nkomo and ZAPU in the Bulawayo area, in the southwestern part of the country. Government security forces unearthed other buried weapons and military equipment near Gwelo in central Zimbabwe and Umtali in the east. The arsenal included 25 SA-7 missiles, more than 7,000 Soviet-made automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, machine guns and more than 2 million rounds of ammunition. Said Mugabe: "The arms were being hoarded to try to overthrow my government...
...clatter of mess-hall cleanup had just given way to the nocturnal sounds of the jungle when Sergeant Manit Kammung and 800 other Thai Border Patrol Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...
...fantasy: the Harvard women's basketball team stifled its critics by nipping Brown yesterday afternoon, 56-55, on junior co-captain Pat Horne's half-court rocket with one second remaining in the game. The sweet victory moved the Crimson one step closer to nabbing its first Ivy title in this weekend's tourney...
...back into the car. Another heavily armed Mujahedin squad blasted a corridor through the government forces to provide an escape route for the auto. Khiabani, though wounded, managed to drive off, but an Islamic Guard scored a direct hit on the Peugeot with a Soviet-made RPG-7 antitank rocket launcher. All of the Mujahedin, including the bodyguards and the two women, died. Rajavi's son survived...