Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fading ocher-colored mansion sits like a ghost in the midst of Taipei's swirling traffic. The heavy wooden doors, surmounted by iron spikes, are sealed shut. Shards of broken glass protrude from the high, surrounding wall. The pole inside the compound that flew the U.S. flag for 63 years (first when the island was under Japanese domination, later under the Republic of China), with only wartime interruptions, does so no longer. Now a set of rough, unpainted boards nailed across the brass plaque on the gate obscures its legend: EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...last week were abruptly confronted by a battery of agitated army troops wildly swinging their guns and bringing cars to a halt. A few moments later a convoy of army vehicles wormed through the snarled traffic and wheeled into the fashionable Hannam-Dong residential district. Suddenly, from a nearby compound housing military and government officials, came the loud staccato of automatic gunfire. After dark, tanks and armored cars were seen taking up positions in the capital, and around 3 a.m. came the finale: the reverberating sounds of another gun battle near the Defense Ministry itself...
...housing compound, it turned out, Chung units offered only moderate resistance, which Chun's forces easily contained. Then Chun and his units moved on to the Defense Ministry. After that second clash with units loyal to the other detained generals, Chun successfully emerged with Defense Minister Ro Jae Hyun's own signature on the dismissal and arrest papers for General Chung...
...both accurate and misleading. The men in dark green fatigues are not students: they are members of the Pasdaran, the Islamic revolutionary guard. But there is general agreement among Iranians and Western diplomatic sources that the 200 or so young men and women who are always inside the embassy compound are indeed legitimate students...
...balmy morning last week, the yellow bus wheeled out of the U.S. Navy compound in Toa Baja, a San Juan suburb. Bouncing in their seats, the passengers-13 men and five women-dozed or talked quietly as they traveled the familiar route from the Sabana Seca Communications Station to a radio transmitter site four miles away. Nobody paid any attention to a green pickup truck that was following close behind...