Word: guam
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...GUAM'S GOT A TEAM! If the nation's capital is not a U.S. state, why can't it be a separate sporting territory? A team of novice curlers formed the District of Columbia Olympic Committee to make the point. Right now, they have to practice in Virginia...
...base for the 509th group, they sent me out to stake some ground in the Pacific. I was sent out to Admiral [Chester] Nimitz's headquarters to make this selection. That was in February 1945. I was given a letter that told Admiral Nimitz, who was located in Guam at the time, that there was being developed an atomic bomb, which would be in his area, in the Pacific, around the first of August of 1945. The letter was classified top secret and I was the custodian. I got myself a money belt and strapped it around my middle...
...Guam Tinian Iwo Jima Hiroshima Tokyo Nagasaki: bombed...
...commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The graying, portly Ezell, 48, has taken an obscure job and made himself the point man in the Administration's war against illegal entry. He earns $68,000 a year to supervise 3,900 INS employees in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, but if he were paid extra for every raid he has led and every word he has uttered in public--or by the amount of wrath he has aroused--Ezell would be rich. Not just a law enforcer, he is a crusader...
...could stay Pyongyang's hand. But President Bush isn't taking any chances. He urged China's President Hu Jintao last week to rein in his irksome neighbor. And in case Kim Jong Il doesn't get the message, the U.S. is rotating Stealth bombers and fighter jets through Guam, where they are within striking distance of North Korea. --By Donald Macintyre. With reporting by Elaine Shannon