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Some Azerbaijanis and Armenians snatched whatever they could find to mount their attacks: pitchforks, metal bars, hunting weapons. However, the arsenal quickly expanded to include such armaments as surface-to-surface missiles and rocket launchers after extremists in both republics stormed military depots and police stations to pillage arms. Many of the combatants are veterans of the war in Afghanistan and know how to use sophisticated weaponry. "I fought in Afghanistan," said an army helicopter pilot. "I know what combat experience is, and it looks like those guys have...
...first woman to quit. "I rode a rocket of unprecedented opportunity," she writes. But two years of prodding a herd of jock journalists led to the discovery that "there was nothing I wanted to do less than spend 80 hours a week administering a staff of 59 men and one woman in producing three editions...
...early 20s, died last week in a bloody nocturnal ambush 200 miles northeast of Managua, as they drove in a pickup truck from the capital to a church meeting in Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast. Bishop Paul Schmitz, 46, an American wounded in the attack, . said a rocket-propelled grenade hit the hood of the white Toyota, and "everything just exploded." Automatic-rifle fire pierced the pickup, breaking Schmitz's arm. He and a fourth passenger, Nicaraguan Sister Francesca Colomer, 24, screamed that they were religious workers, and the gunfire stopped. But Schmitz never saw the assailants...
From the sound of a V-2 rocket descending on London in the earlier novel to the cries of birds pilfering dog food in Vineland: um, as a Pynchon character might say, there seems to have been a little downscaling going on around here. The perception is accurate but also, as things develop, a trifle misleading. True, this time out Pynchon has not tried to top the apocalypse of Gravity's Rainbow. He has chosen a subject that may even cause some groaning (Oh, come on, man, grow up) among reviewers and fans: the attempts of some aging hippies...
...herself by taking a pass from Albright and popping it past a sprawling Steck. Nearly eight minutes later the sophomore scored again, deflecting a puck that was bouncing around in front. Just a minute later it looked like Whyte would be cleaning the hats off the ice when a rocket deflected off the right post...