Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invasion was merely an attempt to help a neighbor in need. The reality is that despite an awesome military presence, resistance goes on even inside Kabul-a curfewed, frightened and sullen city under the gun. John Shaw, an Australian journalist and former TIME correspondent, spent a week in its tank-guarded streets and markets, often under the surveillance of Afghanistan's dreaded secret police. His report...
Every morning, as the weak spring sunshine breaks through the mists and low clouds swathing the jagged snowcapped mountains ringing Kabul, flocks of Soviet helicopters-Mi-24 "Flying Tank" gunships and Mi-8 troop and supply carriers-lift off from the airport and roar across the city on flight paths calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces...
...warrior priest is something new in the line of 102 Archbishops of Canterbury stretching back to Augustine in A.D. 597. The 102nd not only won a Military Cross (as a preclerical Scots Guards officer in World War II for pulling a comrade out of a burning tank) but he happens to be a passable tennis player as well. With magnificent pageantry last week in a cathedral bright with spring daffodils, lilies and notables, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 58, was installed...
...DePalmas called a cab yesterday morning to go to the Somerville Bradlees department store. They got no farther than the edge of Washington St., where police, guarding a leaking tank car, turned them back...
Lally said it was not known which train car was moving when the accident occurred, but other witnesses said the engine sideswiped the tank car, gashing its side...