Word: bahrain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visited the islands after reporting on the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975. His assignment: to determine whether the campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles and military trucks while keeping up with Aquino and Laurel on campaign stops across the 115,830-sq.-mi. archipelago...
...mile circumference could embrace Manhattan, Barbados or (almost) Bahrain. Its 2 billion ft. of niobium-titanium wire could encircle the world 16 times. The 150 megawatts of power needed to operate it could light up a city of 15,000. And its price tag of as much as $6 billion could purchase half a dozen new space shuttles. All told, the superconducting supercollider (SSC), a gigantic particle accelerator that the Department of Energy may begin constructing somewhere in the U.S. before the end of the decade, would be the biggest, most elaborate and most ambitious physics project ever undertaken...
...Bahrain Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand has a special reason to remember his tour in Viet Nam. In September 1974 he married Nguyen Thi Phuong Nga, a Saigon university student. The next year he tried, and failed, to get his Vietnamese in-laws out of the country. Six years passed before they were allowed to immigrate to the U.S. TIME was able to get many of its Vietnamese employees and their families out of the collapsing country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew...
Military sources at embassies in Bahrain said their study of the conflicting battle communiques issued by Iran and Iraq and intelligence reports indicated Iraq had defeated the Iranian thrust. The sources, who spoke on condition thery not be identified, put Iranian losses at about 14,000 killed and twice as many wounded...
...terrorists' demands. Instead, they concentrated their diplomatic efforts on prodding Iran to take the necessary action. Algeria and Syria were enlisted as go-betweens, and the six states of the Gulf Cooperative Council bombarded Tehran with messages urging the Khomeini regime to make sure, as Tariq Almoayed, Bahrain's Minister of Information, put it, that "those who have committed crimes in Iran are punished in Iran...