Word: eglin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was only one of a pride of U.S. military maneuvers round the world last week. At Grafenwohr, West Germany, a U.S. tank battalion roared into combat exercises after having been flown in from Fort Hood, Texas, on a "no notice" emergency drill. At Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, 20,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen prepared to launch "Bold Eagle 80," a nine-day maneuver to practice coming to the aid of an invaded ally. In the Indian Ocean, a U.S. Navy seven-ship carrier task force joined up with a five-ship Middle East force to show...
...Africa, it has seemingly had the opposite effect. One South African poll suggests that the Nationalists will nearly double the vote they normally get from English-speaking whites. Even opposition leaders have joined with the government in speaking out against foreign influence on the country's domestic affairs. Colin Eglin, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, sounded almost as angry as Vorster when he denounced President Carter's firm policy toward South Africa as "appalling...
...many of the convicted Watergate principals, prison was a perfect place to write a book. E. Howard Hunt, however, had already written 42 short stories and spy novels. He used his cell in Florida's Eglin Air Force Base prison as an artist's studio, turning out 35 watercolors and acrylics that "express my hopes and despairs." Soon Hunt, 58, will be able to paint at home. After serving 2½ years of his maximum eight-year term and paying a $10,000 fine, he will be paroled on Feb. 25. Meanwhile, his lawyer is busy trying...
...known as a hotbed of youthful leftism−held demonstrations of their own in sympathy for the Soweto scholars; some of the university protesters wore placards saying WHY SHOOT CHILDREN? THEY ARE THE FUTURE and BLACK EDUCATION KILLS. In Parliament, the leader of the small opposition Progressive Party, Colin Eglin, accused the government's African administrators of "arrogance, indifference and rank incompetence." Eglin also demanded the appointment of a multiracial commission to "consider the social, economic and political reforms that are essential if we are to avoid conflict and live in peace in South Africa...
...Eglin A.F.B...