Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours' drive west of Manila in Bataan province, a sprawling 620-mega-watt nuclear power generator is rising on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Its $1.1 billion price tag makes it the most costly single venture in Philippine history. It also represents a record-breaking financial windfall for the country's champion wheeler-dealer, Herminio Disini, 41. His total commissions from the project could top $40 million...
...Maryland grand jury charged Father Carcich with 60 criminal counts of misappropriation of funds and one count of obstruction of justice. An alleged coconspirator, the order's lay investment adviser, Donald Webster, will not go to trial: he shot himself to death in a flossy condominium in Ocean City a month...
...most part, Carter and Desai got along well as they discussed international economics, relations with the U.S.S.R. and superpower rivalries in the Indian Ocean. One impressed Indian official said of the talks that Carter "went through 75 minutes, without notes, and he showed a total command of all the problems he raised." The one disagreement was over Carter's insistence that India must be ready to comply with a law that Congress is expected to pass requiring on-site inspection of any nuclear materials the U.S. sells to other nations. Desai just as adamantly insisted that as a matter...
...plane during refueling stops on Johnston, a storage dump for poisonous gas; nobody gets off at Kwajalein, a target for missiles test-fired from California. Says Commander David Burt, Navy liaison to the trust territory government: "The fact that they're smack dab in the middle of the ocean makes all these islands important...
...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...