Word: linked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many there were, there was no letup in the bloodbath or in the sniping at U.S. troops. Going into action for the first time in earnest, the 82nd Airborne joined Dominican infantrymen in pushing out from the bridge perimeter, fought their way through the city's heart to link up with a Marine column attacking from the western International Zone. The drive cost another two U.S. dead, at least a dozen wounded?and brought an announcement from Washington that 2,000 more troops were being sent in, bringing the total contingent...
Kennedy praised the link between the Kennedy Memorial Library and Institute of Politics and the Graduate School of Public Administration as a meaningful memorial to the President's goals...
Although its shores touch two oceans and twelve seas, the Soviet Union is practically a landlocked nation. It has too few ports, and those are too far from major population centers and too often on icebound waters. Peter the Great began building a network of canals to link the country's broad rivers, but so much of the network became obsolete that 80% of all the Soviet Union's freight is now carried by rail. The absence of suitable waterways has for centuries hampered Russia's struggle to increase its world trade...
Sought Bridge. Perhaps the first irony was that private Russian initiative developed Alaska for the imperialist Czars. In 1741, when Russia sent two ships east from the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia, it was interested mainly in settling a debate over the existence of a land link between Asia and America...
...CANADA, CALIF. In this luxuriant valley eleven miles north of downtown Los Angeles, residents are making a last-ditch stand against a proposed eight-lane speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built...