Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild mushrooms. Among main courses, moist, roasted pheasant with a subtle gamy flavor was well set off with pungent cranberries, and a mustard glaze added zest to sliced, rare roast filet of beef. Near misses were a too soupy stew of wild duck, the sweetbreads that tasted of overheated oil and both the gratin of salt codfish with a Parmesan cheese and soft-shell crabs that were impeccably prepared but stingingly salty...
...Secretary General U Thant feared that befriending the Biafrans would undermine his status with Nigeria and other member nations that felt threatened by tribal secession. Great Britain had extensive economic ties to her former colony and envisioned huge profits for British petroleum interests from the oil deposits recently discovered under Nigeria's Eastern Region--Biafra. Small wonder, then, that Prime Minister Harold Wilson "remarked that if a million lbos had to die to preserve the unity of Nigeria, well, that was not too high a price...
...disclosure came as a surprise because the Reagan administration had previously announced plans only to provide escort protection to Kuwaiti oil tankers that changed their registry to the U.S. flag. That protection is expected to begin sometime early next month, according to Pentagon sources...
While the Reagan administration weighs options for protecting oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, China, in a potentially explosive move, has shipped a second delivery of Silkworm antiship missiles to Iran...
...keep oil flowing, the United States is preparing to put its flag on 11 Kuwaiti tankers after they are inspected by the Coast Guard. The process probably will be completed early next month, officials said...