Word: rpg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder. It was the fourth attack on the building in the past month. Once again, no one was injured; once again, the raiders got away, despite return fire from the Salvadoran security guard and a lone U.S. Marine on the roof. The conference room, newly repaired after a previous RPG attack, had its ceiling demolished and its windows blown out. The ambassador's office next door still had sheets of protective blanketing over the windows since an attack two weeks ago left bullet holes in the glass...
...press conference the day after the latest attack, Chargé d'Affaires Frederic Chapin confirmed that the embassy is "taking action appropriate to increasing security," but noted the difficulty of stopping an RPG. "It is designed to go through tanks, and we don't have any of them here, unfortunately." Chapin also declared that the U.S. "is not going to be intimidated" in its policy of broad support for El Salvador's civilian-military junta. In Washington, an Administration request for $5 million in additional military aid received final approval in a close vote by a House...
...Clarke--11 (0.9 rpg...
...Chris Mitchell--10 (2.0 rpg...
...George White--8 (1.3 rpg...