Word: baseness
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Nothing of the sort has yet happened, and in fact the Russians so far have failed to persuade any of the countries along the Mediterranean, including Algeria and Egypt, to permit them to build a full-fledged naval base. But even without such bases, the Soviets now drop anchor all along the rim of the Mediterranean and sail binocular-to-binocular alongside the allies. The Russians muscled into the Mediterranean, says U.S. Rear Admiral Richard C. Outlaw, "in a concerted attempt to alter the balance of power in this area." It is to keep the balance even that this week...
...always declared its intention to hand Okinawa and the rest of the 73 islands it administers in the Ryukyu chain back to Japan. The question is, when? During 23 years of occupation, the U.S. has turned Okinawa into an American Gibraltar in the Pacific, a strategic forward base for nuclear-armed B-52 bombers and a logistics launching pad for the Viet Nam war. At the same time, the continued occupation has become the touchiest issue in Japanese politics-and virtually the only political cause that stirs the 952,000 Okinawans...
Even if they do not base their day-to-day investing decisions on the magazine, moneymen find its articles hard to put down. Some months ago, Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener of the Hudson Institute think tank both predicted more than 100 technological breakthroughs that might win chips for investors in the year 2000. On their list: genetic control of heredity, creation of artificial life, extrasensory perception, human hibernation. Says Goodman: "This isn't just a trade magazine. People read it be cause...
Army Pfc. Raymond D. Kroll, who took sanctuary in Marsh Chapel at Boston University for five days last month, was convicted Wednesday of being AWOL from his base at Fort Benning...
...Marsh Chapel community who showed up to see the trial. A military spokesman cited a limited seating capacity as the reason. One would-be spectator said, "They're really uptight about us. I guess they're afraid we might actually talk to some of the other G.I.s on the base...