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08-04-2011, 02:16 AM
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My Alternate T2k timeline
 This will be a thread that will detail the alterate timeline for twilight 2000 in my campaign. I found alot of my notes and would like everyone's help in fixing it up and making it better... Any suggestions for improving the timeline, please make them in the discussion thread that i made as a companion to this one... I'll be adding things to this thread as soon as I can get more data from my notes. If ANYONE catches anything that doesn't seem to fit (or is duplicated) please let me know. When it comes to troop movements I would really like the help in them figured out as well as I can. 
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it. Last edited by natehale1971; 08-04-2011 at 03:04 AM. 
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08-04-2011, 02:20 AM
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Twilight 2000 Countdown to Armageddon: 1980
1980: The Year in Review d January 1980 January 1980. D 9 January 1980. In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979. 26 January 1980. The State of Israel and the Arab Republic of Egypt formally establish diplomatic relations. February 1980 February 1980. D 4 February 1980. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banishar as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 13 February - 24 February 1980. The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from 13 February through 24 February 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. This was the second time the Upstate New York village hosted the Games, after 1932. The only other candidate city to bid for the Games was Vancouver-Garibaldi, British Columbia, Canada; they withdrew before the final vote. 22 February 1980. The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the 'Miracle on Ice'. 23 February 1980. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages. March 1980 March 1980. D 8 March - 16 March 1980. The Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-80 (Russian: Весенние ритмы. Тбилиси-80, Vesennye ritmy. Tbilisi-80) was a musical event held in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, from March 8 to March 16, 1980. It was the first official rock festival in the Soviet Union and is frequently considered the turning point in the history of Soviet and Russian rock music. The festival was organized by the Georgian National Philharmonic Hall, the Union of Composers of the Georgian SSR, and the Republican Center for Youth Culture at the Georgian Komsomol Central Committee. The acclaimed Russian musicologist and the first Soviet rock-critic Artemy Troitsky was also heavily involved in organizing the event. The organizers enjoyed the support of Eduard Shevardnadze, the contemporary First Secretary of Georgian Communist Party, who is said to have sought, in this way, to pacify the Georgian youth increasingly involved in nationalist and dissident activities after the April 1978 demonstrations in Tbilisi, and to nurture his image as a liberal leader. Although dubbed by some as a "Soviet Woodstock", the festival was essentially a state-sanctioned musical competition with the declared aim "to promote the development of original Soviet VIA music... and to discover new talented performers and composers." The jury, formed by the officially established Soviet composers and musicologists, was chaired by Yuri Saulsky and included Murad Kazhlayev, Giya Kancheli, Konstantin Pevzner, Vladimir Rubashevsky, Arkadi Petrov, and others. Many suspected that the festival was an attempt by the Soviet establishment to channel the Soviet rock movement into a controllable ideological vessel. However, the event was truly democratic in that it allowed amateur performers to contest on equal terms with professional musicians. Over twenty groups from seventeen cities of the Soviet Union arrived in Tbilisi to take part in the event. Yet, several notable bands, for example Sergei Rudnitsky's Araks and Aleksey Romanov’s Voskresenie were not invited to take part in the competition. 18 March 1980. Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation. 21 March 1980. US President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics being held in Moscow, much to the disappointment of the American people. April 1980 April 1980. D 7 April 1980. The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on 4 November 1979. 24 April 25 April 1980. Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation. 30 April - 5 May 1980 (Iranian Embassy Siege). Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist survives. May 1980 May 1980. D 4 May 1980. Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations). 21 May 1980. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released. 22 May 1980. Pac-Man (the best-selling arcade game of all time) is released. 24 May 1980. The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran. June 1980 June 1980. D 1 June 1980. The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched. 27 June 1980. U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. July 1980 July 1980. D 19 July – 3 August 1980. The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union. The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held in Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk. The 1980 Games were the first to be staged in Eastern Europe. The United States and a number of other countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games, under the Olympic Flag. August 1980 August 1980. D 7 August – 31 August 1980. Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard. 31 August 1980. Victory of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland. Gdańsk Agreement is signed, opening a way to start the first in the communist block free organization not controlled by regime "Solidarność" i.e. Solidarity. September 1980 September 1980. D 17 September 1980. After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. 22 September 1980. The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran–Iraq War. 22 September 1989 - 20 August 1988 (The Iran-Iraq War). The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the Imposed War (Jang-e-tahmīlī) and Holy Defense (Defā'-e-moqqaddas) in Iran, Saddām's Qādisiyyah (Qādisiyyat Ṣaddām) in Iraq, and the (First) Persian Gulf War, was an armed conflict between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran, lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. It was initially referred to in English as the "Persian Gulf War" prior to the "Gulf War" of 1990. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land into Iranian territory on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution. Iraq was also aiming to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and within several months were repelled by the Iranians who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive.[19] Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with a United Nations brokered ceasefire in the form of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598, which was accepted by both sides. It took several weeks for the Iranian armed forces to evacuate Iraqi territory to honor pre-war international borders between the two nations (see 1975 Algiers Agreement). 29 September 1980. The Washington Post publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict (later proven to be fabricated). 30 September 1980. Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds. October 1980 October 1980. D 31 October 1980. The Polish government recognizes Solidarity. November 1980 November 1980. D December 1980 December 1980. D 4 November 1980. The United States presidential election or 1980, Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald W. Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, exactly one year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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08-04-2011, 02:23 AM
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1981: The Year in Review d January 1981 January 1981. D 19 January 1981. United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 20 January 1981. Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days within minutes of Ronald Reagan succeeding Jimmy Carter as the President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. 21 January 1981. The first DeLorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. February 1981 February 1981. D 9 February 1981. Polish Prime Minister Józef Pinkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. 23 February 1980. Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is about to be named president of the government. The coup d'état fails thanks to King Juan Carlos. March 1981 March 1981. D 30 March 1981. U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded. April 1981 April 1981. D 12 April 1981. The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia (John Young, Robert Crippen) launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit. May 1981 May 1981. D 13 May 1981. The first attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square at Vatican City. The Pope was shot and critically wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a trained sniper from Turkey, while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck 4 times, and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately, and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope later forgave Ağca for the assassination attempt. June 1981 June 1981. D 5 June 1981. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS). July 1981 July 1981. D 7 July 1981. President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States. August 1981 August 1981. D September 1981 September 1981. D October 1981 October 1981. D 6 October 1981. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who belong to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel. November 1981 November 1981. D December 1981 December 1981. D 13 December 1981. Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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08-04-2011, 02:26 AM
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Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake © 1982: The Year in Review d January 1982 January 1982. D 9 January 1982. The Commodore 64 8-bit home computer is introduced by Commodore International at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show. February 1982 February 1982. D March 1982 March 1982. D April 1982 April 1982. D 2 April - 14 June 1982. The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur), also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom (UK) over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The Falkland Islands consist of two large and many small islands in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Argentina; their name and sovereignty over them is disputed. The Falklands War started on Friday, 2 April 1982, with the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Britain launched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Argentine Air Force, and retake the islands by amphibious assault. The conflict ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, and the islands remained under British control. The war lasted 74 days. It resulted in the deaths of 255 British and 649 Argentine soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and the deaths of three civilian Falkland Islanders. It is the most recent external conflict to be fought by the UK without any allied states and the only external Argentine war since the 1880s. The conflict was the result of a protracted historical confrontation regarding the sovereignty of the islands. Neither state officially declared war and the fighting was largely limited to the territories under dispute and the South Atlantic. The initial invasion was characterised by Argentina as the re-occupation of its own territory, and by the UK as an invasion of a British dependent territory. Argentina shows no sign of relinquishing its claim, and the claim was added to the Argentine constitution after its reformation in 1994. The political effects of the war were strong in both countries. A wave of patriotic sentiment swept through both: the Argentine loss prompted even larger protests against the ruling military government, which hastened its downfall; in the United Kingdom, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was bolstered. It helped Thatcher's government to victory in the 1983 general election, which prior to the war was seen as by no means certain. The war has played an important role in the culture of both countries, and has been the subject of several books, films, and songs. Over time, the cultural and political weight of the conflict has had less effect on the British public than on that of Argentina, where the war is still a topic of discussion. Relations between Argentina and UK were restored in 1989 under the umbrella formula which states that the islands' sovereignty dispute would remain aside. 3 April 1982 (Falklands War). Argentina's Invasion of South Georgia 25 April 1982. The State of Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. 26 April 1982 (Falklands War). The British retake South Georgia during Operation Paraquet. May 1982 May 1982. D 2 May 1982 (Falklands War). The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors. 2 May 1982. The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time. 12 May 1982. A second assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II took place just a day before the anniversary of the first attempt on his life in Fátima, Portugal when a man tried to stab him with a bayonet. He was stopped by security guards, although Stanisław Cardinal Dziwisz later claimed that John Paul II had been injured during the attempt but managed to hide a non-life threatening wound. The assailant, a traditionalist Spanish priest named Juan María Fernández y Krohn, was ordained as a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the Society of Saint Pius X and was opposed to the changes caused by the Second Vatican Council, calling the pope an agent of Communist Moscow and of the Marxist Eastern Bloc. Fernández y Krohn subsequently left the Roman Catholic priesthood and served three years of a six-year sentence. The ‘ex-priest’ was treated for mental illness and then expelled from Portugal, going on to become a solicitor in Belgium. June 1982 June 1982. D 6 June 1982 - 17 May 1983. The 1982 Lebanon War (Hebrew: Milhemet Levanon Harishona, "the first Lebabon war"), (Arabic: Al-ijtiyāḥ, "the invasion"), called Operation Peace for Galilee (Hebrew: מבצע שלום Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil or Mivtsa Sheleg) by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. The Government of Israel launched the military operation after the Abu Nidal Organization's assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov. After attacking the PLO, as well as Syrian, leftist and Muslim Lebanese forces, Israel occupied southern Lebanon and eventually surrounded the PLO and elements of the Syrian army. Surrounded in West Beirut and subjected to heavy bombardment, the PLO forces and their allies negotiated passage from Lebanon with the aid of Special Envoy Philip Habib and the protection of international peacekeepers. July 1982 July 1982. D August 1982 August 1982. D September 1982 September 1982. D October 1982 October 1982. D 8 October 1982. Poland bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981. November 1982 November 1982. D 12 November 1982. In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev. 14 November 1982. The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border. December 1982 December 1982. D
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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08-04-2011, 02:27 AM
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Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake © 1983: The Year in Review d January 1983 January 1983. D 1 January 1983. The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed. 26 January 1983. Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers. February 1983 February 1983. D March 1983 March 1983. D 8 March 1983. IBM releases the IBM PC XT. 23 March 1983. Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars". April 1983 April 1983. D 18 April 1983. The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people. The 1983 U.S. embassy bombing was a suicide bombing against the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on 18 April 1983 that killed over 60 people, mostly embassy staff members and United States Marines and sailors. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the blast with a message "promising not to allow a single American to remain on Lebanese soil ... we mean every inch of Lebanese territory. ..." The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force, made up of Western countries, including the US, in the Lebanese Civil War, to try and restore order and central government authority. It also followed the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian militiamen, and four years after the anti-Western Islamic Revolution in Iran. May 1983 May 1983. D 25 May 1983. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is released. June 1983 June 1983. D 18 June 1983. STS-7: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger. July 1983 July 1983. D 6 June 1982 - 17 May 1983. The 1982 Lebanon War (Hebrew: Milhemet Levanon Harishona for "The First Lebanon War", and Arabic: Al-ijtiyāḥ for "The Invasion"), called Operation Peace for Galilee (Hebrew: Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil or Mivtsa Sheleg) by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. The Government of Israel launched the military operation after the Abu Nidal Organization's assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov. After attacking the PLO, as well as Syrian, leftist and Muslim Lebanese forces, Israel occupied southern Lebanon and eventually surrounded the PLO and elements of the Syrian army. Surrounded in West Beirut and subjected to heavy bombardment, the PLO forces and their allies negotiated passage from Lebanon with the aid of Special Envoy Philip Habib and the protection of international peacekeepers. 15 July 1983. Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan. August 1983 August 1983. D 30 August 1983. STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger carries Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, into space. September 1983 September 1983. D 1 September 1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald. 6 September 1983. The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace. 16 September 1983. Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) would be made available for civilian use. 25 September - 26 September 1983. Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm. October 1983 October 1983. D 19 October 1983. Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup. 23 October 1983. The Beirut barracks bombing occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing. Suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the American Marines barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and three Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured, representing the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II. In addition, the elderly Lebanese custodian of the Marines' building was killed in the first blast. The explosives used were equivalent to 5,400 kg (12,000lbs.) of TNT. In the attack on the French barracks, the eight-story 'Drakkar' building, two minutes after the Marine attack, 58 paratroopers from the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment were killed and 15 injured, in the single worst military loss for France since the end of the Algerian War. The blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Israeli 1982 invasion of Lebanon. 25 October – 15 December 1983. The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 US-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of just over 100,000 located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. It was triggered by a military coup which ousted a brief revolutionary government. The successful invasion led to a change of government but was controversial due to charges of American imperialism, Cold War politics, the involvement of Cuba, the unstable state of the Grenadian government, and Grenada's status as a Commonwealth realm with Elizabeth II as the monarch. Grenada gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1974, but Leftist rebels seized power in a coup in 1979. After a 1983 internal power struggle ended with the deposition and murder of revolutionary Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the invasion began on 25 October 1983. A combined force of about 7,600 troops from the United States, Jamaica, and members of the Regional Security System (RSS) defeated Grenadian resistance and the military government of Hudson Austin was deposed. While the invasion enjoyed broad public support in the United States, and received support from some sectors in Grenada from local groups who viewed the post-coup regime as illegitimate, it was criticized by the United Kingdom, Canada and the United Nations General Assembly, which condemned it as "a flagrant violation of international law". 25 October is a national holiday in Grenada, called Thanksgiving Day, to commemorate the invasion. November 1983 November 1983. D December 1983 December 1983. D
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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08-04-2011, 02:28 AM
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Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake © 1984: The Year in Review d January 1984 January 1984. D 24 January 1984. The Apple Macintosh is introduced. February 1984 February 1984. D 8 February - 19 February 1984. The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at the time was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in a Communist state (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union). 13 February 1984. Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. March 1984 March 1984. D April 1984 April 1984. D May 1984 May 1984. D June 1984 June 1984. D July 1984 July 1984. D 28 July - 12 August 1984. The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. When Tehran, the only other interested city on the international level, declined to bid due to the concurrent Iranian political and social changes the IOC awarded Los Angeles the Games by default. The Soviet Bloc initially intended to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, but at the last minute chose to participate. August 1984 August 1984. D September 1984 September 1984. D 20 September 1984. Hezbollah car-bombs the US Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people. October 1984 October 1984. D 19 October 1984. The Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30. November 1984 November 1984. D December 1984 December 1984. D
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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