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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Soviets evidently agree. They have kept two small task forces, including warships, steaming off the Viet Nam coast, with the apparent aim of monitoring Chinese military communications as well as showing Soviet support for Hanoi. The U.S., for its part, has kept two Seventh Fleet aircraft carriers, the Constellation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Brinkmanship on a Hot Border | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Winding up a pleasant weekend of fishing, sunbathing and gambling, 86 passengers, including some blacks, filed aboard two four-engine Air Rhodesia Viscount turboprops for the 40-minute return flight to Salisbury. Six minutes after takeoff, the pilot of the first Viscount radioed a Mayday signal; then Flight RH-827...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Again, Death on Flight SAM-7 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Bubba, 4 ft. 7 in., 75 lb., was packed off to join 1,800 felons at Mississippi's overcrowded state penitentiary at Parchman. Predicted Ronald R. Welch, director of the Mississippi Prisoners' Defense Committee: "He'll never live out the sentence."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Rough Justice in Mississippi | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Winnipeg is jumping. Airline reservations to the frostbitten Canadian city (pop. 560,000) have been booked for months. Hotels are full up too. The cause of this midwinter madness: the last solar eclipse over the continental U.S. until 2017. On Monday, Feb. 26, the moon will slip between the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Matter of Night and Day | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

For years, British Cameraman Peter Scoones has had an unlikely dream. A dedicated scuba diver, he wanted to photograph a live coelacanth (pronounced seal-ah-kanlh), the ancient, almost legendary, stump-legged fish which once was believed to have died out soon after the dinosaurs. Now this paparazzo of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Fossil | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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