Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paratroopers. The airborne unit "was trying to rout Cuban soldiers in their well-fortified Calivigny barracks when it called for Navy air help. Their position was close to an abandoned Cuban antiaircraft gun that still pointed toward the sky. From the air it looked like the intended target. "All of a sudden the world blew up," said Lieut. Scott Schafer, who was hit by shrapnel when the Corsair fired. Twelve paratroopers were wounded. As the plane banked for another strike, a ground officer reached the pilot by radio to warn it away...
...attackers, a father who was a Chrysler foreman and his stepson, were angry and addled: Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz blamed Japanese carmakers for Detroit's problems, and Chin-Chinese or Japanese, it made no difference to them-was a convenient target. "It's because of you we're out of work," screamed Ebens, who was in fact employed full time. The pair got a baseball bat and beat Chin to death. Said he as he lost consciousness: "It isn't fair." When Ebens, 44, and Nitz, 23, were sentenced last March after confessing...
...Israeli target was the headquarters of pro-Syrian factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization that oppose the leadership of Chairman Yasser Arafat. Throughout the week, in fierce exchanges between Arafat supporters and Syrian-backed rebel groups led by Abu Mousa and Ahmed Jabril, 240 people were killed and 550 wounded in two Palestinian refugee camps outside the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. Arafat, who had been in the Tripoli area for several weeks with an estimated 8,000 troops loyal to him, accused Syria of massing 25,000 men and heavy armaments around the camps. He told a Beirut...
...corps to work with. Tight end Lal Heneghan has 17 catches and fullback Chuck Nolan 10. Senior split end Karl Hall specializes in the bomb. He has only nine receptions this fall, but he scored touchdowns on four of them and averages 27.2 yards per catch. McGeehan's favorite target, however, may not play: wide receiver Rich Syrek suffered a knee injury two weeks ago, missed last Saturday's game and is questionable for today...
Those cruise missiles which are neither air nor sub launched would have to be stationed in places not exceeding 2000 miles from their target. This puts the U.S. in a peculiar position of leaving the burden of responsibility for deployment to the allies. (In fact, continental America would have no "land based" nuclear forces whatsoever.) Yet almost all the allies already have U.S. or their own nuclear forces. If NATO adopted a cruise missile defense policy, not only would the destabilizing situation be eradicated in the U.S., but in Europe as well...