Word: strafes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mountains along the southern edge of the Hindu Kush, the fugitives took nothing with them but thin clothing, a little bread and some dried mulberry flour. For 40 days they hid behind boulders and in mountain caves. Each night it snowed; each day they saw Soviet planes bomb and strafe the valley below. The fatalities included 40 adults and about 70 children-20 having died from the bombings and as many as 50 from the cold or hunger. Perhaps 1,200 refugees trekked for 27 days over seven high mountain ranges before reaching safety in a Pakistani refugee camp...
...F/A-18. Though it can do double duty as a fighter, the main role of the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet is to replace the A-7 Corsair II in flying from carriers to bomb and strafe targets onshore. The Navy wants to order 1,366 of the new aircraft at a total cost of $41 billion, or $30 million each, triple the $9.9 million cost originally expected and also triple the cost of the latest version...
...reaction of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran armed forces was slow and clumsy. The day after the guerrillas began their occupation, U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets appeared over Berlin and began to strafe and rocket the town. At least two bombs were dropped a few blocks from the central plaza. Floods of refugees started to stream from their homes carrying sacks of food, clothing and hammocks, as Red Cross ambulances, their sirens screaming, crept through the streets...
What particularly shocked the war-weary Lebanese capital was the nature of the Thursday assault. If a negotiated settlement was almost at hand, why were the Israelis attacking with such ferocity? Why did they find it necessary to strafe apartment buildings and boulevards? The jets were flying so low that their markings were clearly visible, their noise a deafening howl. On the ground, Western correspondents wondered if the Israeli military was about to raze the entire city...
...even as Israeli soldiers were bulldozing the remains of Jewish settlements in the Sinai and removing the last defiant occupants, Israel sent its warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...