Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlucky colonel apparently was a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. A 23-year veteran of military service, he had a one-day transit stopover in Beirut while en route from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...
...joint staff, which Bok established on July 1 in response to the Strauch Committee recommendation for "unification of the two staff organizations concerned with admissions and finance," includes...
...over to Gardiner for a beer before heading back to Tower. The saloon's a wooden affair with a long, running mirror behind the bar, a couple of pool tables, and two poker tables in the rear. The dance hall is locked. Only a dozen people are in the joint. All are kids: a blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans who's loosing...
Mending Fences. All U.S. combat aircraft have been removed from the island, and American troops will be reduced from 4,400 to 2,800 by early fall, but the U.S. continues to conduct joint contingency-planning exercises with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense. Such exercises indicate that any U.S. move to establish formal relations with China this year will be made only if Washington can retain its ties with Taiwan. Peking will have to agree that "normalization and the solution of the Taiwan problem are not simultaneous," say U.S. officials...
...expertise to make an informed argument as to the benefits of its total energy power plant. And it has an depth plan which promises to supply the hospitals with power by 1978, the last year the institutions claim they can operate under the existing system. Although Edison has a joint plan that could do the same, it is apparent that the community groups challenging the Harvard MASCO plant would not take kindly to an Edison plan either...