Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GENERALLY pacific Dutch capital, the highpoint of the political summer is often the forgotten invitation to an ambassadorial cocktail party or the unreturned phone call. But this past summer in the Hague saw an angry American community denounee the Dutch government and the Peoples Republic of China sever diplomatic relations. Because Holland has long been a close ally of the United States and was one of the first members of the United Nations to recognize the Beijing government, the summer's events beg the question of what this tiny lowland state--traditionally and self-consciously moderate--could have done...
...biggest grandstand play since Pete Rose squared off against Bud Harrelson is ancient history: "We haven't forgotten," says senior captain Pete Coppinger, "but this is a whole different team. Most of the guys weren't there...
...action is by turns desultory or desperate, but the almost forgotten war between Iran and Iraq that grinds on implacably along a 625-mile front began its second year last week, causing at least 50 casualties a day on each side. In all, more than 10,000 Iranians and roughly the same number of Iraqis have died since the Iraqis attacked on Sept. 22, 1980. Their aim: to seize the strategic Shatt al Arab estuary, a waterway long disputed by the two neighboring countries that runs into the Persian Gulf. The Iraqis failed in this objective and everyone has suffered...
...died in the fighting-and entombed with them went five tons of gold ingots, contained in 93 wooden cases, that were a payment by the Soviets to the U.S. for military supplies. Covered by 800 ft. of frigid water, the doughty Edinburgh was quickly gone but not soon forgotten; the site of her foundering eventually was named an official British war grave...
Edinburgh's cargo was not forgotten either. After 1957, Britain lifted the ban on salvage operations that had been in effect because of the ship's war grave status. Several costly searches for the cruiser were made by British, Norwegian and Russian companies to no avail, since both British and German records had mistaken the wreck's actual location. But last week a team of civilian divers was laboriously bringing to the surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions...