Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those incongruous specks on the map that once posted the British Empire, the isolated little island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was no better known than it ought to be. Consisting of two slender strips of sand skirting a great lagoon-"like a V written by a shaky hand," wrote one visitor-it was overrun by forbidding jungle growth, wild donkeys and giant land crabs that, according to the few hundred migratory workers who settled the island and harvested its coconut palms, would mass like an army to attack and devour the unwary stroller...
...growing U.S.-Soviet rivalry for naval power in the Indian Ocean has suddenly transformed the tiny coral atoll into a strategic scrap of real estate and catapulted it into a storm of controversy reaching from the Kremlin...
Senate, from Dar es Salaam to New Delhi. The brouhaha stems from U.S. plans to upgrade a small naval and communications station on the island into a $55 million base to support U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...
...Zaid bin Shakar. The diminutive monarch put up at the home of Jordan's honorary consul in Palm Beach, Kleenex Heir James Kimberly, and his wife Jacquie. Then he set about enjoying himself. A day's shooting on a nearby game preserve bagged 40 quail, and an ocean fishing trip in the Atlantic made His Majesty the possessor of a mighty fish: a 130-lb. grouper. A visit to Disney World followed, and finally the mandatory shopping spree, which last year required a special plane to take home the goodies. Asked why Palm Beach had become a popular...
Scientists have suggested any number of exotic solutions to the energy crisis -from harnessing ocean currents to using the earth's magnetic field. Now researchers at the Atomic Energy Commission's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have conceived perhaps the most imaginative scheme of all. They propose tapping what might well be the ultimate energy source: a "black hole"-a small celestial object that is trillions of times denser than ordinary matter...