Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question that had reverberated on many levels throughout the week, as the nation tried to understand how a senseless military mishap and a puzzling American role in a faraway war had somehow combined to cost the lives of 37 sailors trapped in their bunks aboard the U.S.S. Stark. "Americans today," the President noted, "know the price of freedom in this uneasy world." And then, once again, a bugler played taps...
...Americans struggle to understand how a senseless military mishap in the Persian Gulf cost the lives of 37 sailors, Congress is concerned that the U. S. will be drawn into the Iran- Iraq war. -- Analysts ponder why the Stark, with its array of electronic gadgetry, was unable to defend itself. -- Could the planned 600- ship Navy become a fleet of sitting ducks? See NATION...
Within the first hours of the accident, more than 400 passengers and crew members were pulled to safety in an exceptional rescue operation. The bodies of 51 people were recovered, but 84 others are missing and presumed dead. The toll made the mishap the worst peacetime ship disaster in the history of English Channel shipping...
George Nielsen, who owns the Paradise Hill Bar just down the road, staunchly defends his young friend's "mishap." Though he helped Dallas escape after the Bull Camp massacre, Nielsen claims not to know the rebel's whereabouts. "If you gave me $10 million today and told me to put a finger on him, where he is," he claims, "I couldn...
Devin and Dickie McEvoy had shared starting duties in the Crimson goal until Devin's mishap...