Word: snipered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around. At one particularly bad moment on the way south, a Lebanese Army trooper shot into the ground at my feet to force me to turn back. I have rarely been so scared." He finally reached Israeli lines, south of Beirut, where he was able to place...
...report approved the choice of the four-story steel and reinforced concrete building as a headquarters for the Marines because it afforded good protection from sniper fire, provided a rooftop view of the nearby mountains and served as a platform for radio antennas to communicate with the offshore fleet. But the panel criticized Lieut. Colonel Howard Gerlach, the battalion commander, for permitting as many as 350 Marines to be concentrated in the building. Gerlach, who was critically injured in the explosion and is recuperating in Bethesda Naval Hospital, "failed to observe the basic security precaution of dispersion," the report found...
...Sultan, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the U.S. Although mostly planned in advance, the week's activity had an air of urgency. Repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to solve the Lebanon crisis and the Palestinian dilemma, and with U.S. Marines still exposed to terrorism, shelling and sniper fire at the Beirut airport, the Administration felt it was time to shake up the ingredients in the Middle East mix. Its thin but persistent hope was that greater tragedies could be averted and a semblance of stability restored...
...Washington developments were played out against the background of continued violence in Lebanon. Heavy shelling from Druse positions in the mountains above Beirut airport pinned down U.S. Marines in their bunkers. A French soldier was killed by sniper fire in a Beirut suburb. Sheik Halim Takieddin, a high-ranking Druse holy man, was assassinated in his home in Beirut by a young man who embraced him, then shot him with a silencer-equipped handgun...
...ultimate U.S. objectives and policies for the country. One could argue that a combat environment justifies extraordinary measures, including the suspension of personal rights. But as Admiral Metcalf eloquently noted, serious military opposition evaporated soon after the initial American assault. Military action continues only in the form of occasional sniper fire in the wooded areas. That the temporary Grenadian government would resort to nonexistent hostilities as a convenient excuse to restrict democratic rights only strengthens the position of Reagan's critics and narrows the moral gap between American and Soviet behavior...