Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winds of war had also begun to blow in his favor. Last summer the Angolan army launched a Cuban-backed offensive against UNITA strongholds in the southeast of the country. South African forces responded with a full-scale counterattack that drove the Angolans and Cubans back to the town of Cuito Cuanavale. Three months ago in southwest Angola, Cuban troops took up positions as close as ten miles from the Namibian border. Bogged down in an expensive and demoralizing military stalemate, all three governments have become increasingly receptive to a settlement that would end the fighting while protecting their security...
...point, after security forces barged into Rangoon General Hospital, several doctors and nurses, having refused to hand over injured demonstrators, were shot by the soldiers. Radio Rangoon broadcast news of the decapitations of three policemen outside Rangoon and later reported that in the town of North Okkalapa, where two of the executions supposedly took place, 10,000 demonstrators had surrounded an army unit, causing more gunfire...
...document was easily skirted by the Germans, who used poison gas to devastating effect in World War I. In April 1915, German soldiers surreptitiously installed 5,730 cylinders of liquid chlorine in the trenches along a four-mile section of no-man's-land near the Belgian town of Ypres. Using a heavy artillery barrage, the Germans were able to shatter the cylinders and release the lethal gas. In a single afternoon, 5,000 French troops were killed and an additional 10,000 were injured. The carnage in Flanders was commemorated in a poem by Wilfred Owen...
...zeitgeist warp. Seven years ago, at the dawn of the Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid for every excess, fiscal or physical. And in a town where, as one wag notes, "there are more stars at a Rodeo Drive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than there are at the Academy Awards," a few moviemakers are taking the pledge to put drug and alcohol addiction onscreen...
...uprising. "There is no return to the pre-December 1987 status quo," he said. The situation "demands that we organize for the long run." On this point, at least, Israelis and Palestinians agree. "The intifadeh has become natural to people," says a shopkeeper in the West Bank town of Anabta. "We will live on a scrap of bread, but we will never give...