Word: ghat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WORLD NOTES INDIA THE SNAKE IN THE GARDEN THE GUNMAN IN THE BUSH FIRST FIRED AT 7 A.M., SHORTLY AFTER HIS TARGET, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER RAJIV GANDHI, ENTERED THE CORDONED-OFF GARDENS OF THE RAJ GHAT IN NEW DELHI. THE SHOT WAS BARELY NOTICED BY THOSE ATTENDING OUTDOOR PRAYER SERVICES COMMEMORATING THE BIRTH OF MOHANDAS GANDHI, INDIA'S SPIRITUAL LEADER. INDEED, THE PRIME MINISTER'S ELITE GUARD CONCLUDED THAT THE NOISE HAD MERELY BEEN THE BACKFIRE OF A PASSING MOTOR SCOOTER. BUT AT 8:05, WHEN...
...been known for weeks that a Libyan cargo ship, the Ghat, had crisscrossed the waterway just before the explosions began on July 9. Soon after, it was noted that mines had exploded in both the southbound and northbound shipping lanes of the Red Sea, in waters that the Ghat had traveled. Later, French officials who inspected the ship at Marseilles ascertained that its rear loading dock appeared to have been lowered at sea and damaged by waves. Finally, British experts who examined an unexploded mine reported that it was an "ultrasophisticated" device made by the Soviet Union, one of Libya...
Muammar Gaddafi is the sworn enemy of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, as the prime suspect. Central to this view is the fact that a Libyan cargo ship, the Ghat, entered the northern end of the canal on July 6, then traveled southward through the canal and the Gulf of Suez to the Ethiopian port of Assab on the Red Sea, where it unloaded its cargo and eventually headed back toward the canal. According to Egyptian officials, that round trip should have taken the Ghat about eight days. In fact, it took 15 days. Long before the Ghat left...