Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angola (UNITA), the guerrilla group battling to set up a government of national unity. For the first time, UNITA had struck at Angola's oil industry, which accounts for 75% of the country's revenues, and had launched an attack hundreds of kilometers from its bush-fringed stronghold in southeastern Angola...
Forty weatherbeaten shacks and a grassy airstrip by a swampy river delta may not seem like much of a military stronghold. "But in the year-old guerrilla war along Nicaragua's southern border with Costa Rica, the jungle hamlet of San Juan del Norte has taken on a symbolic importance well beyond its dubious strategic value. After three days of pitched battle two weeks ago, contra guerrillas from the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) overwhelmed the Sandinista garrison in the town and scored their first major military victory. After a few uneasy days of quiet, Nicaraguan troops counterattacked last week...
...data collection center is also aimed at "bringing people from all over the world" to the facility as well as extending the Harvard and MIT stronghold in astronomical studies, he added...
Adams also happens to hold a seat, which he has refused to occupy, in the British Parliament. He had left the Catholic stronghold of West Belfast to appear in court on a charge of disorderly conduct, stemming from the parliamentary election campaign. The Sinn Fein leader and four followers were driving through the city center when three men in a light brown Rover pulled up alongside and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three bullets struck Adams in the left arm and upper back. Three other people in the car were wounded, including the driver, who still managed to speed Adams...
...example of trendiness is the Sid Vicious reincarnation stationed between the stacks in Lamont. The Punk and Ivy League lifestyles are not only incongruous, they are also mutually exclusive: No genuinely sordid and cynical Punker worth his razor blades would spend four years on the grounds of an alligator stronghold studying towards a Bachelor...