Word: unite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second day of the new year, and Ronald Li, reputed to be the third richest man in Hong Kong, was still sleeping, when four officers of the government's special anticorruption unit suddenly turned up at his home on the colony's fashionable Shouson Hill. After rousing Li, the former chairman of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the officers thoroughly searched his luxurious three-story house. Then they led away the 58-year-old billionaire, who had hurriedly donned a turtleneck sweater and sports jacket. At the same time, other government squads were arresting two of Li's closest...
...Cambridge Fire Department responded at 11:34 p.m. Monday to the fire in the venerable eatery with one squad car, three engines, one ariel tower and one rescue unit, said Lieutenant John O'Leary of the Cambridge Fire Department...
...victims, 27 were members of the R.U.C., the British army and the Ulster Defense Regiment, the locally recruited, predominantly Protestant militia that assists in policing the province. On the other hand, the I.R.A. suffered its worst setbacks in years. It lost 22 men, including eight members of a single unit, and in November both the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority condemned the organization for its part in the bombing deaths of eleven civilians in Enniskillen. The I.R.A.'s troubles are no comfort, however, to officers like French. Sooner or later, they believe, the I.R.A. will stage a spectacular comeback...
...launch a fierce surprise attack on three mining towns in northeastern Nicaragua. In the hamlet of Siuna, the invaders routed 750 defenders, blew up an airfield and seized enough Soviet-made weapons to supply 1,000 troops. Their biggest coup was the destruction of a Soviet GCI radar unit that formed the heart of Sandinista air defenses for the region. Jubilant rebel leaders called the two- day assault the most successful offensive of the six-year civil war. "We hit them hard," claimed Enrique Bermudez, the contras' military commander. "We achieved all our objectives...
Still, Chun's and Roh's lives ran almost parallel. They were together at a six-month special warfare course at Fort Bragg, N.C., and both saw action in + Viet Nam as unit commanders with South Korea's Tiger Division. In December 1979, after both had become generals, Roh's infantry division came to his friend's aid when Chun overthrew South Korea's ruling clique of senior military officers and eventually took over the country...