Word: dover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the architects of U.S. foreign policy struggled to shape their strategy, the widows and families of the slain Stark crewmen struggled to put the tragedy behind them. Last week the remains of 35 of the 37 dead sailors arrived at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base. Under a bruised sky, pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffins from the belly of a cargo plane and into a concrete hangar. After a brief memorial service marked by quiet sobs, the coffins were shipped to grave sites in small towns such as Greeleyville, S.C., and Fitchburg, Mass., all far, far away from...
...lunch but differ at dinner, with the more gussied up Arcadia-style food served upstairs at night. That seems to be the least successful fare, primarily because of overdone, often sweet garnishes -- oranges in an otherwise luscious lobster ! salad, a cloyingly sugary bed of sauteed onions overpowering the delicate Dover sole meuniere. Another problem at all meals in all rooms is the tearoom breads, delicious by themselves but poor as foils for wine, the satiny American smoked salmon and the elegant terrine of truffled duck liver. Other fine dinner appetizers were the silken lobster-filled ravioli with chanterelles and hazelnuts...
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Miraculously, 409 of the 543 passengers bound for Dover from Zeebrugge were saved. As several investigations into the still mysterious causes of the disaster got under way, Britain's Prince Charles toured the scene and thanked Belgian authorities for the remarkably well-organized rescue efforts that saved so many lives. Said he: "Without that, I think it would have been a much worse tragedy...
...North Sea harbor was calm but cold at 7:50 p.m. as the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise pulled out of the slip at Zeebrugge, Belgium, to begin its regular 85-mile run to the British port of Dover. Darkness had just fallen, and the 543 passengers and crew, most of them British, were settling in for the 4 1/2-hour journey. Some were day trippers returning to Dover after a promotional tour sponsored by the Sun, a London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile...