Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By week's end an international military operation was under way. Britain was sending four minesweepers and a support vessel, with a total of about 200 men, and France was sending two minesweepers and a support ship, in addition to three warships stationed in Djibouti. The U.S. had sent...
With some luck, the divers are able to retrieve the mine and examine it for clues to its origin. While the Egyptians and their allies were preoccupied with the mystery of the Red Sea mines, repercussions from the gulf war were being felt throughout the region. In the third hijacking...
This is the measure of Greg Louganis of the U.S. in a diving competition: after the other best male divers in the world-gifted, graceful, beautifully muscled athletes-have tied the ends of the limits of possibility into bowknots and arrowed into the pool with only the most demure of...
Closer to earth and water, however, there was plenty of spectacular diving competition at the Games. Since 1980, China has been sending powerful men's and women's diving teams, perhaps the best in the world, to international meets. They specialize in acrobatics and "ripped" entries -eerily splashless...
All the women on the U.S. team admit that there is a "fear factor" to 10-meter competition. Wendy Wyland, a compact, agile, formidably confident 19-year-old who was the current world champion as competition started, talks of her "cat sense," and says that she has never for so...