Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indefinitely postponed the dispatch of an aircraft-carrier group to search for drug smugglers in the waters off Colombia after the government in Bogota made clear the ships would not be welcome...
...Soviet domestic politics seem more complicated than ever, so does U.S. policy toward the U.S.S.R. Washington's endorsement last week of the Kremlin's decision to dispatch troops to stop the bloody fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Now that the Soviet military threat seems less menacing, other issues are coming to the fore, including the disputes among the various nationalities that make up the Soviet Union. The past few weeks have demonstrated just how tangled and explosive these conflicts are and how difficult it will be for the U.S. to decide...
...fans need not apply here. The college football title, like Miss America or the Oscars, is chosen by "experts." The 60 A.P. voters represent such influential journals as Pennsylvania's Tarentum Valley News Dispatch, Oklahoma's Enid News & Eagle and the Moscow Idahonian-Daily News, but no papers based in New York City or Los Angeles. The U.P.I. board comprises 50 college coaches, but its membership also borders on the capricious. Tim Rose of minor Miami (Ohio) is a voter; Dennis Erickson of major Miami...