Word: naval
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...women's cross-country teams will compete in the biggest meet of their seasons today. They have travelled to New York City to face the seven other Ivy League schools and the U.S. Naval Academy in the Annual Heptagonal Cross Country Championships...
About 30,000 Cubans who tried to reach U.S. shores, but instead wound up detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base, got a sliver of hope today. In Miami, a federal judge blocked the U.S. from repatriating them pending a hearing tomorrow, forcing an immigration official to race to a pay phone to stop a plane carrying 23 refugees from taking...
These reports convinced the DIA's Tuttle, who had served as a naval aviator in Vietnam, that American POWS were still alive in Laos. He was also persuaded ; by a Dec. 30, 1980, satellite photo of the camp that showed a large "52" carved on the ground near the compound's perimeter. He thought it might mean B-52 for a bomber crew. Photo interpreters also pointed to what they believed was a "K," a standard distress signal pilots on the ground used, next to the 52. Other analysts who have seen the photo subsequently argue that...
...whether they house anything fishy -- like nuclear warheads. The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces apparently wants to stymie the talks between the U.S. and Pyongyang, but some North Korean diplomats have suggested its sights are set lower: all the Ministry want is to halt U.S.-Japanese naval maneuvers off the Korean Coast, which the brass has unilaterally construed as an unfair scare tactic...
...break. The two sides today attempted to bridge new gaps that arose over the weekend, with no reports of progress. The U.S. is complaining that North Korea suddenly won't allow previously agreed-to U.N. inspections of its nuke plants; Pyongyang is crying foul over a joint American-Japanese naval exercise off the Korean coast...