Word: assign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none too soon. At the site of the nosed-in plane, police found a hastily buried box. What that box contained the police refused to say, but whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate...
...says Manuel Perez Guerrero, Venezuela's skeptical Minister of Mines: "That's something that the companies will have to prove." Anyway, the Venezuelans seem willing to sell less oil for more money. In the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), they have been leading a campaign to assign production quotas in order to cut the worldwide glut of oil and thus strengthen prices...
Abruptly, the ground rules had changed. Some 3,500 combat marines from Okinawa landed to secure Danang Airbase. Advance units of the 173rd Airborne also streamed in. One of the most significant U.S. moves was to assign U.S. planes to bomb and strafe Viet Cong units in South Viet Nam itself...
...more can and should be done now to make the Weeks Bridge safe at night. The College should propose that the University Police be given jurisdiction over the bridge. They will be able to assign officers to patrol the bridge at night. The two MDC Police stations don't have the manpower to keep a patrolman on the bridge. And only such patrolling will prevent any further attacks on students crossing the Weeks Bridge...
...Winter Palace. But what Moscow cinema fans found really new and startling at last week's premiere of Salvo of the Aurora were a couple of the bit players. For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"-that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villains-Leon Trotsky had returned to the Soviet scene. Also portrayed for the first time in film since his death twelve years ago was Joseph Stalin...