Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metal had pierced its roof, barely missing her head. The significance of the bomb, which may have been triggered by remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers. He is commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf last July 3, killing all 290 people aboard. Rogers gave the order to fire missiles at the plane in the mistaken belief that it was an Iranian jet fighter attacking his ship...
...proposal to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf station is a perfect example. Harvard solicited community input on the design of the hotel and tried to make sure it would include things the neighborhood wanted. But it was not until members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences criticized the project that the University sat up and realized that the basic idea of putting a hotel on the site needed to be reevaluated. Community residents who objected to the project received little attention...
...petition, sponsored by the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association, is aimed at preventing Harvard from building a five-story hotel on the former site of the Gulf station and developer Graham Gund from constructing a six-story shopping mall on Arrow...
Vigier says that many of the sites mentioned in his study--including the Gulf station site and the Gund project site--are now in the process of being developed. Other sites, such as the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, have remained untouched...
Plans for a hotel on the Gulf station lot across from the Freshman Union and Gund's "Zero Arrow Street" complex can only make things worse, she adds...