Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...requested the license number beforehand, along with the route to the college) arrived in the capital to collect Oleg and Ksana Benyukh and Oleg and Irina Shibko. The driver was Calvin Carstensen, director of community education at the college, and when he met his passengers they handed him a map with a route sketched out that flummoxed him. To go their way would inflate the normal driving time-4½ hours-by half again or more...
...same time, Soviet ships seemed to be more visible in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and even the Caribbean (see map). The cruiser Leningrad was reported to have left Cuba in company with other Soviet vessels, their destination unknown. Although early reports that Soviet ships were conducting auxiliary exercises in oceans other than the North Atlantic seemed to be incorrect, just tracking the global movements of Moscow's fleet created headaches for the U.S. Navy. For the second time in twelve days, the game of "chicken at sea" that skippers from both superpowers frequently play...
Late in May, while on an official visit to Washington, General Sharon shocked a roomful of State Department bureaucrats by sketching out two possible military campaigns: one that would pacify southern Lebanon, and a second that would rewrite the political map of Beirut in favor of the Christian Phalange. Sharon was putting the U.S. on notice: one more provocation and Israel would deliver a knockout blow to the P.L.O...
...standing on a highway overpass with a homemade banner draped over the side. They called back to their boss, CBS News Correspondent Charles Kuralt, that they had spotted a potential story for his On the Road series. With the briefest glance at his watch and a map showing their route that day-a 200-mile round trip from Portland, Ore., up to the woods outside Onalaska, Wash.-Kuralt agreed to turn around and find out what the man was doing...
...novels are, it is the cheerful, if improbable, business of Romancing the Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen and a wide variety of unpleasant reptiles. But Director Zemeckis pushes them along at a pace that disarms disbelief, while realizing the full satirical values of Diane Thomas' brisk thrusts at adventure-film conventions...