Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Braintree, Mass., Sunoco Station Manager Bruce Weir was laboring over his books at 6:15 a.m. "I saw a fellow pull up to the pump in a late model Chevy Malibu and I went out and knocked at the window and I said, 'I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell gas till 7.' I started back and got two steps from the door when I felt a big bang on my left leg. I grabbed my leg. Below me was a bottle of Heineken's, half full. Now I walk backwards...
...influence on Nicaragua's civil war and on the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a broadly based collection of Marxist and non-Marxist leftists held together mainly by hatred for Somoza's regime. The evidence of such influence is scant, though U.S. intelligence reports indicate that since late May a Panamanian DC-6B cargo plane has operated regularly between Panama, Cuba and Costa Rica carrying newly trained rebels and a variety of weapons...
...refugees who landed in Hong Kong reported that they were the only survivors of a boatload of 200. Two who reached Japan late last year said that 139 of their companions had perished. On another vessel, broken down at sea, half a dozen people died before a passing British freighter picked up 295 dehydrated survivors last month and took them to Taiwan. The ship has been tied up in Taiwan's Kaohsiung harbor ever since while the authorities try to make arrangements for Britain to resettle the refugees. Since they have no political power, either in their own country...
...Late last week, even as Douglas officials testified before congressional inquiry that the plane should be allowed back into U.S. skies, Bond flew to Los Angeles to confer with FAA safety experts searching for possible design flaws in the DC-10 at the Douglas plant. In his sessions with the FAA experts and safety board "crash detectives," Bond asked if the design and structure of the engine mounts in the 30 and 40 series were sufficiently different to justify clearing the bigger planes, of which there are 35 in the U.S. fleet. Not really, they replied. That left Bond with...
With the risks rising daily, about a third of the foreign newsmen, including all but one of the American networks' 24 representatives, were airlifted out of the country late last week. For them, the balance between their job and their personal safety had tipped under the weight of Bill Stewart's murder. Said ABC Producer Ken Lucoff: "No story is worth a man's life...