Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the Israelis last week revived a dormant but still explosive issue. Israeli Defense Minister Sharon charged that P.L.O. units in southern Lebanon were rapidly building up their artillery and rocket arsenals in defiance of a July cease-fire agreement. He also complained of the continuing presence there of Syrian antiaircraft missiles. Accusing the U.S. and Europe of ignoring the problem while they flirted with the Fahd plan, Sharon warned that if "political means" failed to get results, "Israel will have to act." As the search for peace continued, so did the threat of war. - By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported...
...million in taxes Bostonians will give to the military in 1982. Four days of planning for the MX missile program costs $16 million. The situation in Boston seems grotesquely similar to President Eisenhower's observation in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who cold and are not clothed...
...armies of the Libyan-backed Oueddei and the French-backed Habré. The struggle continued off and on, killing thousands and ravaging the country's riverside capital of N'Djamena, until November 1980, when Gaddafi dispatched to Chad a contingent of 4,000 troops, complete with tanks, rocket launchers, mortars, helicopters and MiG-25 fighters, to support Oueddei. Habré quickly agreed to a cease-fire and fled. Gaddafi, who dreams of creating a sub-Saharan Islamic republic from Senegal on the Atlantic to the Sudan on the Red Sea, announced a month later that Libya would "merge...
With just 36 seconds remaining in the first half, Chubb took a Ferrante header and lofted a 25-yd. rocket which flew just under the crossbar for her first goal of the season and a 2-0 Harvard lead at intermission...
...Columbia was lofted into a 137-mile high orbit by 6.4 million pounds of thrust from its three liquid fuel engines and by two rocket boosters, which trailed a thick column of white smoke as they burned their solid fuel...