Word: guam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottle washed up a few months ago on a beach in Guam and was found by an American jogger. He replaced the 10? stamp on the letter with a new one and posted it the regular way, but it came back marked "No longer at this address." So the jogger sent the love note to the Seattle Times, which managed to track down Bob's beloved, Donna. Reporter Don Duncan read the note to her over the phone...
...trace of the fighter in the face of Donald Regan, the urbane stockbroker polished by the Cambridge Latin School and Harvard. But nevertheless there are the wary eyes, the cleft chin, the crooked nose. It goes even deeper. Inside there are the battle traces from Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam and Okinawa. He admits it. "No training for anything except fighting," he says, recalling 1946, when he left the Marines to take on Merrill Lynch. He won that engagement too, rising to the jobs of president in 1968, chairman in 1971. Now he is sitting in the large, sunny office...
...which ground crews are excused from outdoor maintenance. Seven BUFFS and three KC-135 tankers were scheduled to roar aloft at 7 a.m., just as 390 other Strategic Air Command planes took the air, in less than ten minutes, from 69 other bases in the continental U.S. and Guam. The mission: a simulated launch in the face of a Soviet missile attack, part of a readiness exercise called Global Shield. It was the biggest mass launch in SAC'S 35-year history...
...crazed man attacked him with a knife. John Paul, history's most traveled Pope, laid on a punishing 20,000-mile, twelve-day itinerary that included an initial stopover in Muslim Pakistan on the way to Manila, and was to be followed this week with a stop on Guam, four days in Japan, a touchdown in Anchorage, Alaska, and a first-ever papal flight over the North Pole en route to Rome...
...only one project has been judged worthy of nationwide promotion. As part of the 1977-78 pilot program that distributed $1.3 million in four Western states, Guam and the Pacific Islands trust territory, the DOE gave Stanley Mumma of Arizona State University $11,000 to develop a curriculum for teaching people to build solar hot-water systems for their homes. Using methods learned in the course, more than 1,500 residents of the Phoenix area have installed solar systems. The DOE will now spend $1 million to establish the same kind of workshop in every other state...