Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Canals. Hoping to reach the Gulf of Mexico, Krist threaded his way through cross-state canals. At the last lock along the 155-mile stretch, a suspicious tender called the FBI. Swiftly, a land, sea and air task force was mounted to track Krist down. With helicopters whirring above him Krist ran his boat aground on a crocodile and snake-infested strip of Gulf Coast land called Hog Island...
...Oakes, editorial page editor of the New York Times, and Roy Innis squared off in a debate over the relative merits of integration and black separatism as solutions to black problems. While the exchange was nothing new for Americans, it gave many Europeans their first inkling of the gulf between blacks and whites in this country
Into the Vacuum. Before he returned home last week, the Shah, in his ambitious new role as benevolent big brother to Saudi Arabia and the diverse sheikdoms along the Gulf, promised Saudi Arabia a new medical school, complete with professors. He brought along a trade pact that will supply arid Arabia with fresh meat, vegetables and eggs. And he offered the Saudi airline a share of the lucrative annual hadj flights, the trips to Mecca by devout pilgrims from Iran...
More significantly, the two monarchs tacitly agreed to put aside the Bahrain dispute, for the time being at least, and moved on to the more urgent problem of how to defend the Persian Gulf...
...reached at Riyadh on joint defense measures. But, taking no chances, Iran pushed ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on arms and development in the region. The Iranians are adding three minesweepers to the nine minesweepers and 125 patrol boats already on duty in the Gulf. The first two squadrons of U.S.-built Phantom jets have arrived at the southern Iranian air base of Vahdati, only 20 minutes' reach from the heart of the Gulf...