Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lighthouse Preservation Society had directed me to the Thacher Island people, so I assumed that they must be working together. But when I asked what role the LPS had with the island, I got a negative reaction. No one on the dock seemed to care...
After what I'd heard on the dock, I felt a little wary of LPS and James W. Hyland III. But Mr. Hyland, whose business is publicity, was much more willing to help than Mr. Cameron had been initially. He put me quickly at ease...
...Supreme Court in Moscow. Yuri Churbanov, 51, Brezhnev's son-in-law and a former First Deputy Minister of the Interior, stands accused of accepting more than $1 million in bribes from Uzbek officials during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Eight other officials will be in the dock, including the former Uzbek Interior Minister and several regional police chiefs. If found guilty, the defendants could be sentenced to death. Churbanov's wife Galina, who is Brezhnev's daughter and has been linked to a Moscow diamond-smuggling ring, may be called to the witness stand...
Anniversaries are revered in Poland, but it was apparently just coincidence last week that workers launched a wave of strikes close to the eighth birthday of the outlawed Solidarity trade union. The stoppages crippled ten coal mines in Silesia and paralyzed dock facilities in the Baltic seaport of Szczecin. Although the strikes were not organized by Solidarity leaders, Lech Walesa, head of the union, warned that workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk would join the disruptions early this week. The strikers' demands included legalization of Solidarity, as well as higher wages and better working conditions...
More precisely, it appeared that the terrorists came to hijack -- and stayed to kill once their plans went awry. Three hours before the shooting began, a rental car loaded with explosives blew up in the Athens suburb where the Poros was due to dock later in the day; the two people in the car were killed. Greek police speculated that the terrorists planned to take over the vessel, bring the explosives onto the ship and turn the Poros, with 505 aboard, into a floating bomb. The gunmen on the vessel might have learned of the car explosion and decided...