Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the day, a Saudi Arabian coast guard vessel hit a mine in the northern end of the Persian Gulf and two crewmen were injured slightly, Saudi police said...
Inner City Outreach is just one of six independently operated summer programs under the PBHA umbrella. The safety record for these programs, if examined as a whole, is exceptionally good. Harvard students have been successfully running programs like mine for the last eight summers, serving close to 300 children, five days a week, eight hours a day, for eight weeks each summer. PBHA counselors drive children daily, and have driven thousands of children over the years, taking them practically anywhere, from foreign cities to local sites. The two recent accidents are the most serious we have ever experienced...
...gawky Goliath, beset by poor planning, faulty conception and just plain bad luck. Last week the Bridgeton, a Kuwaiti tanker now flying the Stars and Stripes, prepared to limp out of the Persian Gulf with a 30-ft. by 10-ft. hole in its hull caused by a mine that caught its American protectors unprepared. Jumbo military transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region was on edge in the wake of a protest...
...Bridgeton took on oil at week's end and another reflagged tanker, the Gas Prince, began its return trip with a full load, it was all too clear that the gulf is no place for ill-conceived operations. Had the mine been struck by a U.S. warship instead of the Bridgeton, the result might well have been yet another tragedy, with no easy way to retaliate. Indeed, from its inception, the whole reflagging operation has seemed drawn from Alice's curiouser and curiouser looking-glass world...
...believe a large group of Americans hold beliefs somewhat akin to mine, but they are all too often nameless and faceless...