Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based Sea Harrier jets armed with 1,000-lb. bombs and cannons swooped in again on the airfield, pounded it and then streaked back out over the South Atlantic. In a separate strike, British jets attacked a grassy airfield 50 miles away, near the settlement of Goose Green (see map). Though one Harrier reportedly suffered minor damage, British officials called the series of missions a success and reported: "All aircraft and personnel returned safely." British warships also shelled the Port Stanley airport and perhaps other military positions along the Falklands coastline. A British Sea King helicopter was also said...
...Inman, 51, now leaving the CIA? The admiral told TIME that he felt he had accomplished what he had set out to do at the agency: "Get a road map created for a long-range rebuilding program all across the whole intelligence community." Having done that, he insisted, he was stepping down to build a second career in private business, earn enough money (he now gets $59,500) to put two teen-age sons through college, and spend more time with his family. Admitting that his career had involved "wretched work habits and hours," Inman said his eldest...
...Diamond Jubilee appropriately marked the apogee of empire and navy. The empire had been built by a blue-water navy that had circled the globe, bringing in its wake the traders, soldiers and engineers who were to color more than a quarter of the map of the world in imperial...
With its World's Fair, Knoxville tries to get on the map...
...special pendulum Johnson uses in a process she called radiesthezure spins wildly when held over a map of Beverly, Richards said, adding that the woman had determined a particular area of the 150-acre lake to search...