Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a week, the 576 passengers aboard the Soviet cruise liner Maxim % Gorky had been sailing through the North Atlantic near Iceland, marveling at the dramatic Arctic scenery. Just after midnight on their ninth day out -- it was foggy, yet still light in the land of the midnight sun -- the 25,000-ton ship struck a partly submerged ice floe. Three gashes opened in the starboard forward hull below the waterline, one of them 18 ft. long...
Although the University initially planned to build a hotel on the Gulf site, President Derek C. Bok this spring announced that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) would be allowed to develop the land for academic purposes. FAS has not announced a plan for the land, but possible alternatives include a library, an office building or a hotel that could be converted for academic...
...Gulf station site is one of the last pieces of undeveloped land near the Square, and University officials actively campaigned against the new limits on it. In May, President Derek C. Bok made the unusual move of contacting two city Councillors who previously favored new development and asking them to delay the vote...
...Jewish settlers of the West Bank are not easily moved. Despite 18 months of rebellion by Palestinians who also lay claim to the land, most of the settlers are more determined than ever to stay put. But they are less sure about the government's commitment. Angered by the failure of the Israeli army to put down the uprising and its inability to provide them with sufficient protection from the daily onslaught of stones, some of the settlers have launched an intifadeh of their own. Hard-core extremists, numbering several thousand, have organized a vicious campaign of retaliation against Palestinian...
...metal spears, and spikes designed to rupture tires. By his count, 541 vehicles were damaged and 30 Jews injured in Hebron during April and May alone. "Look at what we have to live with," he says, displaying pictures of broken windshields and bleeding faces. "We accept that settling the land of Israel requires suffering, but this is too much...