Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly before dawn, the seven young activists slipped from their blacked-out launch and swam the half-mile to shore, pushing rubber dinghies laden with supplies. Tall, muscular and bronzed, they looked like beachcombers, except for wrist, ankle and head bands plaited from the leaves of ti plants, which are supposed to bring good luck. They also marked the wearers as members of Protect Kahoolawe Ghana (Hawaiian for "family"), the most militant of the native islanders' protest groups...
...Adem, near Tobruk, Al Kufra and Umm Alayan, as well as a training camp for African "volunteers" near Al Jaghbub, which was attacked by helicopter-borne commandos. According to Egyptian intelligence, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Gaddafi-in cooperation with Ethiopia and with Soviet support -planned to launch attacks on moderate governments all across northeast Africa...
...five grand masters of 17th century painting-the others, by general consent, being Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Poussin-was born 400 years ago this summer, on June 28, 1577. This birthday has raised memorial exhibitions all over Europe. No anniversary of a comparably great figure could launch so many shows, because Rubens was so prolific. A thousand or so paintings, more than 2,000 drawings, sown from Leningrad to Washington: Rubens was the grand inseminator of the Baroque, a monster of controlled fecundity, erudition and discipline. The biggest Rubens show, the text to which all the others are necessarily footnotes...
...TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations did not give weather forecasts, lest they help the enemy launch an attack...
...expedition for some pre-Himalayan conditioning. They can also try their skills on Yosemite's Rixon's pinnacle, a rock spire where an urban alpinist named George Willig developed the confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million...