Word: snipered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebanese army returned to barracks that it had not occupied for five years. As soldiers under the protection of French Foreign Legionnaires cleared away earthen barricades, the Sodeco crossing point between East and West Beirut was opened for the first time since 1978. It was quickly closed, however, when sniper fire from members of a small militia group, Partisans of the Revolution, caused a halt in traffic. But an hour later the leader of the group, Moustafa Turk, went to Prime Minister Wazzan's office to deliver a bouquet of flowers and an apology. There had been, he said...
...President-elect Bashir Gemayel, former leader of the Christian militia forces, faces when he tries to pull together a country of feuding sects. On Wednesday, Gemayel had a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Later, a French soldier attached to a United Nations unit was killed by sniper fire outside the city. A Syrian MIG-25 jet fighter was struck by an Israeli missile and crashed into a northern suburb. In eastern Lebanon, Syrian and Israeli armies still confronted each other. Though both sides said they hoped to avoid all-out war, each vowed it would not depart...
...cease-fire must be maintained. Reagan's grim warning: "When P.L.O. sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that is stretching the definition of defensive action too far." A day later the Israeli bombardment of West Beirut began. It lasted for 14 hours...
...other comedians, Richie was the little kid with the big sassy mouth in a tough neighborhood. Pryor has minted much comic revenue from images of his youth: the whorehouse his grandmother ran, his father's satyric appetite, his own early awakening to the pleasures of the flesh, the sniper fire of racism. Some of this currency is counterfeit (his family, as he says in Sunset Strip, was not poor), but all is dross for his alchemist's mind...
...last week by a band of police, led by an officer brandishing a .45. "We have come peacefully, without arms," protested one of the candidates. "I don't understand." Suddenly, a red tear-gas canister landed in the street, scattering the group of journalists who had accompanied the candidates. Sniper fire popped like firecrackers a block away. Finally, the three presidential candidates?Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre and Gustavo Anzueto Vielman?offered to go alone to present their grievances to the authorities. The candidates never made it to the presidential palace. Instead, they were taken to police headquarters...