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...Jordan last year and blew up four skyjacked jetliners. Its spokesmen in Beirut insisted that the speedboat had traveled a full 1,300 miles from the Jordanian port of Aqaba to carry out the attack, but this seems highly unlikely. More probably, the boat sailed from islands around Bab el Mandeb controlled by the radical government of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (which was Southern Yemen until a name change six months ago), or was carried to the scene aboard a bigger craft. An unmarked trawler was in the area at the time of the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Ambush at the Gate of Tears | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...other term-paper services claimed that they had foolproof reference systems which eliminated chances of mistakes. Bab Reth of Quality Bullshit (QBS) said that QBS keeps "detailedrecords of every single transaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Term-Paper Company Admits Possible Error | 5/20/1971 | See Source »

...throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through the Past, Howsomever- The Crimson, 1876 | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...aimed at the vast Indian Ocean. "The Russians are advancing south," Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote last month in the Times of London. "If they were given to slogans they would declare: 'Red soldier, go South.' Their way is a succession of straits-the Dardanelles, Suez, Bab el Mandeb (linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden)-but it is a painless progression. No power blocks their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Russia: Toward a Global Reach | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

Facing the toughest challenge of the day, John Ince dumped Yale's Bab Stevens, who has played number one this year for the Elis...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Racquetmen Top Yale Squad, 9-0 | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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