Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bricks. When army troops finally stormed the defenses Tuesday evening, they met heavy resistance from rockets and machine-gun fire. Pinned down by a far superior, better-armed force than they anticipated, army troops called for reinforcements of tanks and artillery. After six hours, the machine guns fell silent and army sharpshooters closed in, backed up by troops with bayonets. When army troops finally stormed the basement, they found the bullet-riddled bodies of Bhindranwale and his two top lieutenants...
...hours and the trip to Kharg at the northern end of thegulf another 27. We waited twelve hours at Sirri before the Iranians gave us permission to leave at a time when they felt the risk was lowest. At dinner that night the mood was somber, and people were silent. You could feel the tension growing. Everyone seemed to share the terrible feeling that, at twelve knots, we were going very slowly...
When we left the next day, an Iranian tugboat followed us for 50 miles. The fully loaded ship rode low on the sea. On deck, the captain and a few officers were silent and unsmiling as they searched the horizon with binoculars. "I know if anything happens, there will be panic among the crew," Captain Chu Ching said...
Mexico, the source of an annual flow of about 3 million people to the U.S., faces its own "silent invasion" of illegal immigrants. Over the past four years, 100,000 Guatemalans have fled their country to settle in the south Mexican state of Chiapas. The influx has caused serious tensions with Guatemala, brutally reminding Mexico that it cannot remain immune to the violence and instability that pervade Central America. To alleviate the problem, the Mexican government last week began to move 4,500 refugees from camps in the border area to federal lands in Campeche, some 120 miles...
...only poking a little satiric fun at the whole preppie movement. Everyone should be able to laugh." But not, in Gottlieb's case, on the way to the bank: he has now lost two of the three items his firm produces. The only one left is Silent Vigil foam-rubber wind chimes, introduced two months ago "for those who love the look but hate the sound." Silent Vigil sales to date: 2,000 toneless tintinnabulators...