Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initial attack. An estimated three to five regular divisions (at least 30,000 troops) were held back. They were apparently arrayed in a crescent-shaped defense line that stretched from Yen Bai on the Red River in the west to Quang Yen on the east coast. Their mission: to defend the coastal plain surrounding Hanoi and Haiphong, and wait for the Chinese to show their hand...
...politics of the Middle East. The Khomeini regime has already announced that Iran will no longer sell oil to Israel. But what else will it do? The P.L.O. announced last week that the first task of its new Tehran "embassy"-located in what had been the Israeli mission -will be to persuade Iran to impose a stringent boycott against Israel, including a blacklisting of all foreign firms that do business with Jerusalem...
...freshman from Shawnee Mission, Kansas, then outsprinted his teammates, Princeton's Ron Cummins and Columbia's Lincoln Djang to win in 4:02.43, a meet record. Raikula and Coglin also qualified for the NCAAs...
Despite all his previous experiences, Yates had never slept through a windstorm in such an exposed position not bivouaced on a rock. He had set off "anticipating part of a Mission Impossible chase scene with rangers hot on my trail. That aspect of the chase was all just a game. I would play fair if they caught me," he said, but added he didn't expect the plane, the helicopter, or the searchers...
...street"). Organized according to categorical imperative, Chan's past work has included "Girls of the Big Ten" and "Girls of Washington." Fourteen years' experience has led him to expect his arrival in a new town to be treated as a news event, but his latest reconnaissance mission produced an even more satisfying furor than usual...