Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spearheaded by a dump truck that smashed through the main gate, Thai paratroops, border guards and marines rushed in. Peppering the buildings with small arms fire, grenades and anti-tank shells, the soldiers swept through the campus. The toll: 41 dead (only two of them police) and 180 injured. "They were out for blood," said one Western newsman who had covered the war in Viet Nam. "It was the worst firefight I've ever seen." Huddled in terror on the central soccer field, student captives were stripped to the waist and kicked around by swaggering soldiers. Shoes, watches, eyeglasses...
...mile flight from Urumchi to the Soviet border discloses the Chinese vulnerability to incursions from the north. The Dzungarian basin spreads into a hard, flat, open plain beneath the P'o-lo-k'o-nu Mountains, ideal tank and tactical-air-strike country. Kazakh boys who ride bareback through the surrounding pine forests must beware the leopards that still roam the foothills of the T'ien Shan range. The border-control point is a 600-yd.-long bridge across the Ili River, where the Chinese claim that the Soviets continue to infiltrate agents. They also say border...
...heaviest tank and artillery action of Lebanon's long-playing 18-month civil war reverberated last week through the steep mountain ranges northeast of Beirut. And as has more and more been the case in the country's so far insoluble struggle, the principal combatants were not even Lebanese. The battle was mainly between Palestinian commandos holding some towns near Lebanon's 8,500-ft. Sannin Mountain and Syrian forces determined to dislodge them, with Lebanese forces fighting in secondary roles. The Syrians, after a 36-hour artillery barrage, were successful; altogether, however, another 1,500 people...
...returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975. Returning to Washington as an economist at the Institute for Policy Studies, a self-styled radical think tank where the Moffitts also worked, Letelier had begun calling for unity among opponents of "fascism in Chile." Early in September, he had spoken out against the junta at a benefit concert in Manhattan for Chilean refugees. Just before that concert, the junta revoked his citizenship, accusing him of "grave crimes...
...panacea for all your political ills, but, in Al's mind, you can get pretty far with a smile and a glass of homemade wine. I'd like to taste the stuff sometime; our mayor has gotten more political mileage with homemade wine than a Chevette gets on a tank of Amoco supreme...