Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Betancourt's red-faced government sent Canberra jet bombers to search the Caribbean, called on the navies of all friendly nations to help find "the pirates.'' Venezuela itself has just six destroyers, of which four are slow and nearly obsolete. The only hope was the U.S. A day passed, then a second and a third, with only a false report of a sighting. Radio Havana weighed in with an offer of asylum for the hijackers; the vessel, said Castro gleefully, would be turned over...
...sent a note to the embassy ordering him out of the country in seven days for having made "elaborate preparations for espionage." Australian officials would not say what secrets Skripov had been seeking, but last week thousands of workers at the big Woomera missile range-some 750 miles from Canberra-were undergoing interrogation...
...Skripov is understandable. In 1954, MVD Colonel Vladimir Petrov, who also had been posing as a lovable diplomat, defected to the West with an armful of secret documents that described widespread Soviet snooping operations Down Under. Caught Redhanded, the Russians broke off diplomatic relations, did not reopen their Canberra embassy for five years...
...engineer and industrialist, a middle-class merchant's son (born George Horatio Nelson, no kin to the naval hero) who won his peerage by taking over the Depression-stalled English Electric Co. Ltd. in 1933, building it into a giant combine (assets: $250 million) producing everything from the Canberra jet bomber to the smallest vacuum tubes; in Stafford...
...smaller but scarcely less luxurious scale are two new British ships, Union-Castle's 33,500-ton Transvaal Castle, which will run between Southampton and South Africa, and P. & O. Orient's 45,000-ton Canberra, which will ply a leisurely looping route from Vancouver to California to Australia, Singapore and Ceylon, on through the Suez Canal and Mediterranean to Britain, with many stops along the way. The Transvaal Castle is strictly one class, fixes its rates ($392 to $2,324) according to size and location of the cabins. The Canberra has first and tourist classes...