Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intellectual crisis of the Zealots arises when "Israel the Jewish State" is no longer "Israel the Outpost of Democracy." The Zealots face the embarrassing possibility of acknowledging to their allies in the pro-Israel coalition that they really believe in "My Israel, right or wrong...
...Yeltsin listened glumly, Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin told stunned members of the Supreme Soviet about how one night last month their colleague showed up dripping wet at a police outpost in the bosky Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky by his driver, a gang of men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head, hustled him into a car and raced wildly around before tossing him off a bridge into the Moscow River. He swam 300 yds. to shore, Yeltsin said, then rested briefly and went to authorities...
Some 800 miles to the west, at Montana's Fort Missoula, is a premier exhibit of photographs and artifacts from life in the thriving frontier city exactly a century ago. Established in 1877, the outpost became known as "Fort Fizzle" because Indians fleeing from Idaho to Canada merely detoured around the fortification. The exhibit includes furniture, clothing, tools, weaponry and a reproduction of a 41-star American flag that was never mass-produced. Reason: more states were already slated for admission the next year. A banquet menu indicates that the framers of the state constitution dined on the likes...
...artillery fire -- the sound of war -- fades quickly in the gigantic stillness of mountain and glacier. Soldiers clad in dirty white snowsuits, their faces burned black by the sun, scramble to put another shell in the 105-mm howitzer and fire again. They are Pakistanis, serving at an outpost 17,200 ft. up on the Baltoro Glacier, just short of a sweeping ridgeline called the Conway Saddle. Their fire is aimed over the ridge at similar positions manned by Indian troops seven miles away on the Siachen Glacier, the longest in the Karakoram mountains. When the weather is clear...
...alone charge, at such heights and over crevasse-riddled glaciers. At 18,000 ft. and higher, even a fully acclimatized soldier carrying rifle and combat pack can jog only a few yards without losing his breath. "The terrain does not allow much movement," says a Pakistani officer at an outpost on the Baltoro Glacier. "There is a natural limit to this conflict...