Word: navales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese connection has already made it doubtful that Beijing will get Congress to grant it permanent MFN status this year. Even longtime supporters are worried about appearing to be in China's pocket. In Long Beach, California, residents are protesting a city plan to lease the abandoned Long Beach Naval Station to the China Ocean Shipping Company Americas, a firm controlled by the Chinese government. California Senators Feinstein and Boxer, who are ordinarily dependable China boosters, have asked the Pentagon to look into the security implications of the lease...
...Oddly enough, he has had to struggle to think about it or at least to find fellow believers and pastors whom his thoughts don't embarrass. And more oddly still, his struggle is not unique. It began about 14 years ago, when Burton, then attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, converted from his childhood Southern Baptist faith to Catholicism. For the most part, the switch suited him fine. The Baptists were a little too easygoing for him; he preferred the Catholic view that salvation depends not only on accepting Jesus but also on what you do with your...
...Cmdr. David Wade, chief of staff at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, yesterday on the ability of President Clinton to travel to Finland next week, where he is scheduled to meet with Russian Prime Minister Boris N. Yeltsin. The President tore a tendon in his right knee earlier that morning in a stumble on wooden stairs at golfer Greg Norman's Florida home...
Pierre Salinger's theory that TWA Flight 800 was destroyed accidentally by a missile test-fired from a U.S. naval vessel [NATION, Nov. 25] is not all that questionable in light of the National Transportation Safety Board's inconclusive explanations. It brings me to quote history's most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes: "When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." KAM-WAN WONG Durham, England
...offseason, Zimmerman looks forward to an intense summer experience as a member of the East Coast National B Team. As part of the recently developed national program, Zimmerman will live in Maryland and train with other Eastern players at the naval academy facilities in Anapolis...