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...China attacks the island of Quemoy, a base for about 100,000 Nationalist troops in the Taiwan Strait, in a bid to "liberate" Taiwan. The U.S. deploys the Seventh Fleet; the Chinese back...
...fall season involved mostly fleet racing—regattas which entail races of around 18 boats and two divisions, each representing one school...
...website went down after being attacked by a number of viruses which have plagued the Harvard network, said Carl A. Tempesta, operations manager for passenger transport and fleet management services...
...crucial? Critics have accused Bush's team of ignoring the important caveats that accompanied intelligence estimates about Iraq's suspected WMD. Analysts with Air Force intelligence, for instance, took issue with the assertion--hinted at by President Bush in a speech in October 2002--that Iraq was building a fleet of unmanned aircraft with which to deploy its chemical and biological arsenal. During a Feb. 5 speech at Georgetown University, CIA Director George Tenet cited the NIE, insisting, "Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs, and those debates were spelled out in the estimate." The panel wants...
...These things should not be confusing. But to those living in a land where a creaky set of buses can pass for a Silver subway line (we wouldn’t like to see what they call the Bronze Line), the introduction of Tyler’s non-duckly fleet could be disastrously confusing. The sleepy Crimson commuter could easily step onto one of the new arrivals and find himself or herself destined for the depths of the river...