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...willing to placate Marcos was that the Soviet Union has since 1979 slowly established a major naval complex at the fomer U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam, about 750 miles west of the Philippines. The deep natural harbor at Subic Bay, 50 miles northwest of Manila on the South China Sea, is the primary support and logistics base for the U.S. Seventh Fleet's 80 ships and 550 aircraft. Four floating dry docks can accommodate surface craft or submarines. Its supply depot is the Navy's largest, and its magazine holds 3.8 million cu. ft. of ammunition...
Last week NWA Inc., the parent company of Northwest Orient Airlines, agreed to buy Republic Airlines for $884 million. The combination of the two carriers, both based in Minneapolis, is a good fit. Primarily a long-haul operator, Northwest would benefit from adding Republic's shorter Midwestern and Southeastern routes. If approved by the companies' shareholders and the Department of Justice, the deal would create the fifth-largest U.S. airline in terms of passengers, behind United, Eastern, Delta and American...
...Marcos' popularity, his newest challenger faces an uphill battle. Until the death of her husband, few Filipinos knew much about Cory Aquino. Born Jan. 25, 1933, she was the sixth of eight children in the Cojuangco family, a wealthy, politically prominent clan based in Tarlac, a province 65 miles northwest of Manila. After attending schools in Manila and the U.S., she earned degrees in French and mathematics from New York City's Mount St. Vincent College, returned to Manila and enrolled in law school. But in 1956 she abandoned the academic life to marry Ninoy Aquino, the mayor of Concepcion...
...when four or five gunmen carrying walkie-talkies and wearing masks and bulletproof vests burst into the room. While one of the intruders held his family hostage, Guerrero was whisked away in a car to the Brink's main warehouse where he worked, some 15 miles away in the northwest Paris suburb of Colombes...
...should Crimson undergrads care about some place up in Alberta, about 3000 miles northwest of Cambridge? What possible connections link Calgary and Harvard...