Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interviewed the novelist; and Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, who did what would be described in Le Carré's spy argot as the "burrowing"-the background research. Fischer talked with Cornwell for 16 hours, both in London and at the author's farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Cornwell lived up to his reputation as a rugged interview only when he jauntily insisted that Fischer join him on a "forced march" of three miles over the cliffs near his home...
...feds now believe that organized drug wholesalers and international syndicates are operating in New England. In August a series of drug raids in Rhode Island uncovered a drug ring using 20 trucks, six airplanes and four ocean-going vessels...
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head...
...first evidence of these virulent new bugs was detected in May at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, a port on the Indian Ocean, where five children ranging in age from three months to two years came down with unusually persistent cases of pneumonia. Three eventually died of meningitis. The two who recovered did so only after long treatment...
...result in the phasing out of all Harriers, which are designed for backing up typical Marine-style assaults on beachheads. Says one pilot: "The Ma rine Corps is trying to keep the Harrier funded. But it's hard to get money when your planes keep plunking in the ocean...