Word: flak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rangers, however, ran into unexpectedly heavy antiaircraft fire as their choppers approached Point Salines. Much of the flak came from the barracks area where Cuban workers building the airstrip were housed. The Pentagon had expected to find about 500 Cubans on the island, including 350 workers and a small military advisory group. Instead, they were facing more than 600 wellarmed, professionally trained soldiers...
...words and deeds, the four nations reaffirmed their intention to stay. French President Francois Mitterrand flew into Beirut on Monday to underscore his nation's commitment. He was followed two days later by Vice President George Bush, who visited the site of the carnage wearing a helmet and flak jacket. On Thursday, Secretary of State George Shultz conferred with his French, Italian and British counterparts in the Paris suburb La Celle-Saint-Cloud. After a five-hour meeting under unusually tight security, at a secluded 17th century chateau, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson reiterated "the support of our governments...
With the guns of Lebanon finally silent, the Marines for the first time in more than a month could move around without flak jackets and helmets. Uniforms were being cleaned, and officers at the 1,200-man Marine compound at Beirut International Airport were again conducting inspections of weapons and barracks. In Washington, Congress found it easier to approve a compromise that allows the Reagan Administration to keep the Marines there for an additional 18 months. A reluctant House of Representatives passed the measure, 270 to 161, while an even less enthusiastic Senate endorsed it, 54 to 46. The debate...
...seconds after the flash, the shock wave from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed...
...spent the afternoon in the besieged mountain town of Suq al Gharb. His head bare, his sleeves rolled up and his flak jacket worn with an almost sporty air, the young President was the fighting image of his embattled country. He told his troops that for the first time "Mohammed and Antoine were behind the same barricade." The Muslim and Christian names that President Amin Gemayel so deftly joined are symbols of what makes Lebanon unique in the Arab world, while the word barricade was a reference to what has often divided this most contentious of nations. After his return...