Word: hunts
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...most lucrative gift was bestowed in 1986 when Britain declared a 150- mile fishing-conservation zone around the archipelago, later extended to 200 miles. Sales of fishing licenses to Asian and European fleets on the hunt for prized illex and loligo squid bring the islands annual revenues of $47 million (in contrast to the $7 million earned by islanders in 1981, mostly from the sale of wool). Ironically, for a population made rich by the indigenous marine life, the kelpers have no fishing fleets of their own; until three years ago, when a swimming pool was installed in the capital...
Twenty years later, much about the exhaustively investigated Watergate affair remains a mystery. In a two-hour cbs documentary, WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY, to be aired this Wednesday, Mike Wallace puts the scandal in perspective and elicits new facts from participants. Howard Hunt says a goal was to uncover illegal foreign funds going to the Democrats. Wallace reveals a memo from Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan urging use of "a sharp stick" to destroy Democrat Edmund Muskie, and Donald Segretti describes the "dirty tricks" used to accomplish that goal. Bob Woodward adds a few tiny details about "Deep Throat...
...best, although perhaps not the only, reason to see Patriot Games, which is a sort of sequel to the successful adaptation of another Tom Clancy thriller, The Hunt for Red October. Ford replaced Alec Baldwin, who played sometime cia intelligence analyst Jack Ryan in the earlier movie, when Baldwin turned uppity. Some other characters are also carried over from the previous venture...
...This is a multi-cultural environment--some of the tension comes out and into play," Hunt says...
...Hunt believes that the attitude towards religion at Harvard is characterized by neglect rather than opposition or discouragement...