Word: crews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to think Harvard was pretty homogeneous--upper middle-class kids," says David C. Hsu '89 of Houston. But after spending a year at the College and working on dorm crew last week, the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Political Review says he has changed his mind and revels in the diversity he has found...
...make the argument that they're elitist, but I'm a scholarship student. And I went to public school," says Forsyth, who rows crew and is also involved in the Crimson Key Society and Model United Nations...
...security forces, and a military rescue operation was ruled out. After the hijackers dispersed the remaining hostages to secret locations in Beirut, complex negotiations among the U.S., Israel and Syria led to the release of the Shi'ite prisoners and the TWA hostages. Of the original 153 passengers and ^ crew aboard, one person, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem, 23, was killed...
...ACHILLE LAURO. Four Palestinians, armed with Soviet-made submachine guns and hand grenades, in October 1985 seized the Mediterranean cruise liner with more than 400 passengers and crew aboard. The hijackers were persuaded to leave the ship voluntarily during negotiations involving the Egyptian government and Palestinian leaders. U.S. Navy pilots captured them after their surrender. One passenger, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of Manhattan, was murdered in the attack...
Successful commando assaults require very careful planning and expertly trained troops. An Israeli group in 1976 rescued 105 hostages from an Air France flight at Entebbe, Uganda. Four died -- three hostages and one commando. In 1977 West German forces staged the most successful raid, rescuing 86 passengers and crew from a Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia. No commandos or hostages were killed...