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...sophisticated hardware, including missiles and radar equipment. Soviet reconnaissance kept watch on the battlefronts with high-altitude sorties over the Gulf of Tonkin. A flotilla of 13 Soviet ships cruised the South China Sea, awaiting the arrival of the flagship of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the 16,000-ton cruiser Admiral Senyavin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

When the Coast Guard gets a break, it is often by chance: Coast Guardsmen had boarded one mother ship last July when a smuggler's plane, unaware of the seizure, flew over and dropped a note giving directions for a rendezvous with a cabin cruiser. The officers dressed up as deck hands, kept the appointment with the yacht, sold three 80-lb. bales of grass, and then arrested the American buyers. For each such capture, the Coast Guard cutter gets to display a marijuana leaf on its hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Ebenezer Scrooge may have had the only workable attitude towards Christmas gift--giving. A little "Bah, Humbug" and you were in the clear; no tramping through slush-soggy streets, no jostling battle-cruiser-esque matrons in Filene's basement, no running up six figure bills at the Coop...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard-owned area is divided into sectors--each policed by at least one cruiser. The Medical School and Peabody Terrace have their own so called "teams," which basically operate as separate units. "There isn't a day that goes by that we don't have a call on larcenies," Dougherty says, commenting on the Med School area. "The thefts really started in 1966...Some of the things that routinely happen now would be the subject of conversation for a week, then," Dougherty says...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: No Molotovs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...sent the guided missile cruiser Richmond K. Turner with 400 marines to Nicaragua's Pacific coast...

Author: By Charles H. Roberts, | Title: U.S.-Sponsored Genocide | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

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