Word: shells
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Marchais's words were an open indication of the increasing strain between the French Communists' allegiance to Moscow and their loyalty to the Mitterrand government. "Pro-Sovietism is like an old shell that won't break off," said a Parisian woman who is married to a Communist journalist. "Party leaders are incapable of telling the U.S.S.R. to go to hell when they [the Soviets] do outrageous things...
Soon after the U.S. and France had issued their warnings to the fighters in the mountains, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt's political group, the Progressive Socialist Party, declared that its forces had decided not to shell military positions in which the Lebanese Army and the multinational force had a joint presence. That seemed to be good news, since it applied to a large number of military locations throughout the capital and could have freed Beirut from the constant threat of shelling from the mountains. That night, in fact, the city was peaceful for the first time in almost...
Throughout the week, the position of the multinational force was becoming increasingly precarious. U.S. Marines at Beirut airport spent most of Monday night in their bunkers after rockets and artillery shells began to land on the encampment. Dawn was scarcely an hour away when a rocket crashed into a bunker in Alpha Company's position to the east of the airport runway, killing Corporal Pedro Valle Ramos of San Juan, P.R., and Lance Corporal Randy Clark of Minong, Wis. The following day, an artillery shell struck the French military headquarters in West Beirut, killing Lieut. Colonel Louis Sahler...
Levin does not add substantially to the public record about DeLorean's arrest for cocaine dealing, but the author makes a strong case for DeLorean's systematic looting of his infant firm. Levin charges that he used a shell corporation in Geneva called GPD Services to siphon off $17.65 million. No trace of the money has turned up, but the suspicion is that DeLorean walked away with at least some...
...Syrian Army entered Lebanon to stop (as they put it) the war. But they quickly took the side of the Palestinians and started to shell the civilian Christian areas, day after day killing thousands of innocent people. Their aim was to break to the Christian resistance, which is the only obstacle to the annexation, by Syria, of a great part of Lebanon. This non-stop shelling continued from 1976 until the Israeli invasion in 1982 (the goal of which was to stop the PLO terrorism...