Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard squash team recorded two victories this weekend, defeating Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. on Friday, 8-1, and then the U.S. Naval Academy here at Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday afternoon...
...particularly after President Nixon's "tilt" in favor of Pakistan during the 1971 war with India. Desai and Carter will talk about how the U.S. could aid the Indian economy. The President is also expected to soothe the Indian apprehensions about the big U.S. air and naval base being built on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
...official in the ministry's weapons section, recruited both his wife and the third member of the trio, Jürgen Wiegel, 32, into the espionage ring. Wiegel, so far the only one to admit his guilt, was employed as a clerk in the ministry's naval staff...
...crowned himself and placed a smaller coronet on the head of the youngest of his three wives, 28-year-old Empress Catherine. (Rumor has it that the Emperor also keeps a blonde Rumanian mistress on the side.) Two-year-old Crown Prince Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dressed in a white naval uniform, yawned occasionally during the ceremony and next day fell fast asleep at a postcoronation parade...
...result so far is something of a geo-political standoff. The Soviets have lost their primary Indian Ocean naval facility, but can probably find some kind of alternative-possibly on Ethiopia's Red Sea coastline. They have exchanged the friendship of Somalia for that of a far bigger country. But Ethiopia is an extremely fragile ally that is fighting wars in its northern province of Eritrea as well as the Ogaden, and is led by an unstable junta. Only last week the junta executed its second in command, Lieut. Colonel Atnafu Abate...