Word: skirmish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nate Thayer, a spokesman for the Boston Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear group, charged yesterday that "the police were excessively violent with absolutely no provocation," He added that a woman had been hospitalized with a concussion suffered during a skirmish with the police...
...Salvador. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the State Department last week that he could not go along with the plan. Salvadoran government officials fear that if they accept the teams they will be admitting they need outside help to defeat the guerrillas. Still, leftist guerrillas are beginning to skirmish again with Salvadoran soldiers, scarcely a month after the defeat of the insurgents' self-proclaimed "final offensive." Authorities in San Salvador are predicting a long struggle-and it is one in which U.S. soldiers could possibly find themselves under combat fire...
Reagan won a skirmish with Congress last week when his most controversial appointee, Raymond Donovan, was approved as Secretary of Labor by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee; he faces the full Senate vote this week. Some half a dozen informants had told the FBI that Donovan's New Jersey construction firm had ties to organized crime. The chief accuser was Ralph Picardo, a self-admitted "unsavory character" who was convicted of murder in 1975. Two years later, his conviction was overturned on appeal. Meanwhile, Picardo began to talk and the FBI found him to be a credible...
...another pivotal early-season match-up, Ivy middle level powers Cornell and Princeton hooked up in Ithaca, and the Big Red came away with the best of the skirmish...
Even now, almost eight weeks after 3.6 million 19- and 20-year-old men surrendered their names, address and social security numbers to the Selective Service System (SSS), you cannot say for sure who won the initial skirmish over the issue of military registration. Both sides claim victory, but neither the government nor the leadership of the anti-registration forces expects to rest in the months ahead. Both camps are planning new assaults, priming fresh troops for the front lines. Cries of "We have not yet begun to fight" echo across the temporarily inactive battlefield...