Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since clearing of the canal began last February, more than 700,000 explosives, ranging in size from hand grenades to rockets and aerial bombs, have been disarmed by Egyptian, American, French and British divers. The task force, which is headed by U.S. Admiral Kent Carroll, has salvaged the wrecks often large ships and more than 100 small boats and barges along the 101-mile waterway. Though the clearing operation is all but complete, the canal will not be reopened for commercial shipping until next March. Whether or not ships will be able to use the canal, however, depends in large...
...Freshmen vs. Kent School...
...enviable connec tions in high places. They expose everything from White House "plumbers" and shaky missile deals to consumer fraud and child abuse. This does not go down well in a small southwestern town, and its ill will bubbles over into a slaughter by National Guardsmen obviously modeled on Kent State...
...four students killed at Kent State have been buried for 4½ years. But the restless search for justice for them and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen seems likely to haunt the U.S. on through history. What was apparently the last chance for a criminal court to set the matter to rest ended last week when Federal Judge Frank J. Battisti ordered an acquittal on technical grounds for eight Guardsmen defendants-even though, he added, they may not have been "justified in discharging their weapons...
Nevertheless, a consideration of these propositions and their implications--wearisome though it may seem, irritating though it may be to politicians who prefer to join one of the Kent State jurors in talking of the need to go back to "normal life"--is the only proper response to last week's events. Otherwise the normal life people return to will sooner or later include more draft-dodging exiles, more Kent States, more My Lais, and more of the daily round of repression and violence of which these were heightened, intensified moments...