Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stood in a half-mile queue while a firefight raged six blocks away. When the action moved closer, the people dropped to the ground until it passed, keeping their places in line. In another northern suburb, San Antonio Abad, voters hid in their homes until the end of a skirmish that left twelve rebels and three soldiers dead. When the fighting stopped about 8:30 a.m., the people had to step over bodies and rivulets of blood in the dusty streets to vote. But vote they...
Questions about the New York Times piece were first raised last month by Village Voice Columnist Alexander Cockburn. He was incredulous at what Jones espied through binoculars one dark night during a jungle skirmish. Jones wrote: "On the summit of a distant hillside, I saw a figure that made me catch my breath: a pudgy Cambodian, with field glasses hanging from his neck. The eyes in his head looked dead and stony. I could not make him out in any detail, but I had seen enough pictures of the supreme leader to convince me, at that precise second, that...
...jets last August, two choruses sounded in counterpoint: "Hooray! We've finally put Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...
What is more, Nicaragua is willing to use its force, as it illustrated unmistakably last week during a skirmish in the remote swamplands of eastern Honduras. Some 75 members of the revolutionary army of Nicaragua collided with roughly equal numbers of Miskito Indians, members of a Nicaraguan tribe that has rebelled against their country's Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full...
...Reagan last year overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington and John Adams and their Cabinets could...