Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were no signs of trouble. But two days later, he was recalled, ostensibly to discuss a new assignment. Four days after that, his wife Raisa and their two children were hustled out of Bonn after being told that they were being given a new apartment in Moscow. En route to the airport, Raisa realized she'd forgotten her passport. When she returned to the apartment, she saw that it had been ransacked by the kgb. Varenik didn't have time to alert the CIA before he left, and the first the Americans knew of trouble was when he missed...
...En route to the 62nd running of the Compton Cup at Princeton, Harvard heavyweight crew had a bit of a problem with the boat trailer--it fell off. Although the varsity and JV shells were uninjured, minimal (but repairable) damage was done to the two freshman shells...
...Thieu's resignation. Responding to an urgent request from the forces in the South for more ammunition, Hanoi had sent thousands of trucks racing down the coastal highway loaded with rockets and shells. Bui Tin, a colonel and journalist for an NVA newspaper, arrived in Danang on April 21, en route from Hanoi to join the final push. Two days later he flew south on a helicopter that, he says, "was filled with new military maps of Saigon that had been rushed into print and flown from Hanoi" to guide the invaders...
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Clark Fiester and seven other people were killed when their Air Force C-21 plane exploded near Alexander City, Alabama. The seven other victims were all military personnel, including Air Force Maj. Gen. Glenn A. Profitt II. En route from Maryland to San Antonio, the plane experienced an unknown emergency that forced the pilot to attempt an unscheduled landing at the Alexander City airport. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. The Air Force is investigating. Fiester was secretary in charge of acquisitions for the Air Force. TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...Crimson (11-7 overall, 4-0 Ivy)--fresh off its 6-1 drubbing of Princeton on Friday--could do little wrong against the Big Red in both the singles and doubles matches, losing just one en-route to the lopsided victory. Cornell 1 Harvard...