Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballistic-missile submarines, bombers and ABM systems are abandoned, with all nuclear weapons removed from fighters based on land and on aircraft carriers. Each side retains 1,000 ICBMs with MIRV warheads, thus achieving a precisely even face...
...resumption of the flights -but only if Biafra agrees to meet two stiff conditions. Food planes must fly during daylight to distinguish them from gunrunners who often head at night for Uli, Biafra's principal airstrip, and have proved difficult to distinguish from mercy flights. They must also land at Lagos or another Nigerian airfield to be searched for contraband before proceeding...
Public campuses have traditionally charged higher tuition for out-of-state students than for natives, but this summer the gap has widened dramatically. After surveying more than half its 113 member schools, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges reports that tuition fees for the coming year have been hiked an average of 10% for nonresident students, compared with increases of only 3% or 4% for residents...
...states own the portion of the beaches that lies between low and high water marks; the so-called "wet sand" is thus open to anyone. But it has never been made clear whether a person has the right to cross private property to gain access to that public land. In fact, some states grant vested rights in the beaches to the localities, which also claim authority to enforce restrictions on bathing by virtue of their police power. As a consequence, the law varies enormously from state to state and the rights of the public remain ill-defined...
...Praise Jesus!" cried the young souvenir sellers around Jerusalem's holy places. "Hallelujah!" The boy vendors had recognized a familiar figure-portly Evangelist Billy James Hargis, 44, who this month led his 31st pilgrimage to the Holy Land. With him were 23 members of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade, seeking, said Hargis, "a spiritual blessing and reaffirmation of faith." But there was a bonus. "Our trips to Israel are not only religious," Hargis reminded his faithful entourage. "I want you anti-Communists to meet anti-Communists in other parts of the world. Israel is a bastion against Communism...