Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The immediate Israeli military rationale for an attack on southern Lebanon is to wipe out the P.L.O. guerrillas based there. Beyond that, Israel would like to help its allies, the Lebanese Christians, become stronger, and if possible force Syria to withdraw its 30,000-man peace-keeping force from Lebanon...
The clatter of mess-hall cleanup had just given way to the nocturnal sounds of the jungle when Sergeant Manit Kammung and 800 other Thai Border Patrol Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered...
The queries as to our motives were even more wounding to us who had agonized though a night of desperate uncertainty. Yet it showed how narrow was our margin for policy. If we courted confrontation, following the advice of the anti-détente zealots, we would almost surely be undermined...
That calculated Western onslaught was staged before some 300 representatives from 35 countries, reassembled at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to review the 1975 Helsinki accords for the first time since martial law was declared in Poland last Dec. 13. The speeches were too much for Soviet...
Enter 158-lb. Sean Healey, a Crimson wrestler who has been plagued by inconsistency throughout the season. But Healey turned the tide for Harvard, pinning another outstanding Columbia wrestler, Dan Pepin, with a well-executed pancake maneuver to tie the score at 13.