Word: interceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of Communist-directed elements in the internal affairs of Guatemala and Nicaragua through the landing of armed forces or supplies from abroad." As explained by the State Department, this meant that U.S. forces would conduct a regular search of the Caribbean, but would not act to intercept suspicious vessels unless 1) those ships were within the three-mile territorial limits of Nicaragua and Guatemala, and 2) those countries specifically requested the U.S. Navy to intercept. One job of the electronics-crammed destroyers will be to detect small fishing boats or yachts-or possibly foreign submarines-and prevent them from...
...start, The Game took on the air of a staged affair, as ABC-TV directors wandered all over the Stadium seemingly ready to cue in the players on where to run, when to fumble, and--unfortunately--how to intercept passes. But the game produced several interesting surprises, and even the score was not the 55 to 0 mentioned in Yale's pre-game script...
...dangerous, but they make a loud rat-a-tat-tat sound. To the space traveler, the chief harm that they can do is psychological. So Whipple suggests that the nerves of spacemen be shielded from this hazard by surrounding their capsule by a thin metal shell that wi!! intercept the speeding dust particles but will not transmit to the capsule the unnerving sounds that they make...
...Still hobbled by the loss of injured Quarterback Charles Ravenel, Harvard hung on until the last few minutes before it was able to push over a touchdown, intercept a last-minute pass on its own 4-yd. line, to squeak past Columbia, 8-7. ¶ After a frustrating, fumble-filled game, Michigan's Wolverines got off a desperation fourth-quarter pass that caromed off a couple of Northwestern defenders before End Bob Johnson snagged it on the 1-ft. line. It took two more plays for Michigan to cross the goal and beat the Wildcats...
...people, going over the heads of-and against-the governments. Last month Buenos Aires police raided a strategy meeting of the street-fighting Committee in Honor of the Cuban Revolution, and flushed the Cuban embassy's second secretary. Argentine agents have been able on two occasions to intercept and photograph the bags of Havana's diplomatic couriers. Both times they found copies of the celebrated manual for guerrilla warfare written by Castro Henchman Che Guevara. On at least one occasion they found orders for Peronista terrorists...