Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urban shootout was the latest escalation in the well-organized Mujahedin's struggle to topple Khomeini. It demonstrated that the guerrillas have retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles...
...Shootout with the Libyans [Aug. 31] should remind us that the "shores of Tripoli" are already memorialized in the Marine Corps Hymn, dating from an earlier period when the U.S. fought to keep open the waters of the Mediterranean. With Reagan as President, the message goes out: "America is back!" It will be heard and understood both by our friends and by potential enemies...
...founder of the Peace People in Northern Ireland shared in the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize; and Jack Maguire, 37, auto mechanic and widower of the bride's sister, Anne Maguire, who inspired the movement after three of her children were killed by a car involved in a shootout between British troops and an Irish Republican Army guerrilla; she for the first time, he for the second; in Rome...
...movie provides good, escapist wishfulfillment. No matter how much Murray baits the sergeant, disregards authority and breaks the rules, everything comes out all right. There's even a shootout with Russians in Czechoslovakia which pits 40 Americans against 200 Russians in closerange combat with machine-guns, mortars, grenades and cannons--and nobody gets hurt...
...thriller it is axiomatic that character is action. When the characters act for themselves, Gorky Park maintains its credibility and force. Only at the end, when the lines of Soviet intrigue are played out, does Smith allow action to rule character. In New York the story degenerates to Shootout, and authenticity gives way to violence and the requisite antiromantic finale...