Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it arrived, the American flags hung lazily in the halls of Montezuma and nary a worthy wave lapped the shores of Tripoli...
...last time the U.S. mistakenly bombed a foreign mission was in 1986 in Tripoli, as an Air Force F-111 screamed over the darkened Libyan capital. The fiery bomb blasts of another F-111 just ahead forced the second plane's crew off its attack path and sent three 2,000-lb. bombs into the French embassy. When the U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7, there once again were two pilots aboard a single plane. It was a B-2 this time. Once again, a trio of 2,000-pounders went astray. But this time...
...scientists to measure the punch packed by weapons they already possess without actually testing them. It's a doozy for the Chinese, who may have pocketed U.S. secrets just before they signed the nuclear test-ban treaty in 1996. And then there are the nuclear wannabes from Pyongyang to Tripoli, to whom the Chinese might sell the codes. Warns Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, based in Washington: "This could facilitate nuclear-weapons development by China, or anybody else, without our knowing about...
Humvees. Fighter planes. Swarms of the finest fighting professionals the Marines and the Navy can muster, staging an elaborately coordinated amphibious assault with deadly precision. So which military hot spot is this -- Baghdad? Tripoli? Actually, it's San Francisco. No, this is not William Cohen's preemptive strike against a reflorescence of the Summer of Love, it's a massive war games exercise scheduled to begin March 14 in the Bay Area that will involve 6,000 troops, five ships, helicopters and F-18 bombers. The maneuvers are intended to simulate warfare in a heavily populated urban area...
...winsome tale of a space traveler who explores the moon only to find upon his return to earth that his life is empty. Salinger and Canadian publisher ALAIN STANKE clinched the book deal with Gaddafi not long ago in a tent at the maximum leader's army barracks near Tripoli. Stanke says Gaddafi will get no advance and denies reports that the Libyan government is paying the publisher and Salinger to put out the book. No movie options...