Word: seafronting
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Marine guards took over the seafront boulevard in front of the British Embassy, crouching with guns leveled at those who ventured nearby. The U.S. Embassy has had its temporary offices at the British Embassy since terrorists blew up the American Embassy April 18, killing 17 Americans and 32 others...
They have occupied the town gymnasium, and sleep on the floors of the courtroom and the town magistrate's office. They even come into the kitchens of the tin and clapboard seafront houses to take tea from their adopted mums like loving sons...
...barnlike Brighton Center on the famous old seafront, Thatcher was cheered ecstatically by the 5,000 delegates, as Tory left and right put aside their differences. The right, if it held sway, would have her cut public spending much more severely. The government has already cut nearly $20 billion from public spending and is planning to bite deeply again next year. Sir Raymond Pennock, spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry, argued in a long meeting with Thatcher that "industry has got itself efficient. It has shouldered massive reduction in jobs. Government must do the same...
...first time, both sides in Beirut wheeled up heavy artillery. Most civilians, accustomed to gunfire and mortars, did not recognize the sound of howitzer fire as the first shells came arcing out of the mountains ringing Beirut to burst with gigantic splashes in the Mediterranean alongside the seafront boulevards. As the gunners found their range, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, the shells began to slam into office buildings and apartment houses. Sound trucks sped through the hastily cleared streets warning citizens: "Go to your basements and avoid elevators when the shells come." For some, the warning was too late...
TIME'S Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Marmon, both veterans of battlefront coverage in Viet Nam, had a ringside seat in TIME'S office in the seafront hotel district. They too had to abandon the office to the street fighters for almost a week. Prager evacuated his wife and four children to safety in Athens, Marmon moved his family to London. Returning to the office last week, they found that it had taken about 30 hits, mainly from .50-cal. armor-piercing machine-gun bullets. The desks were covered with shards of glass and plaster...