Word: piers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets claim cnly to have "access" to bases in Viet Nam. The installations there, they insist, are still very much in Vietnamese hands. Not so, say U.S. experts. Aerial photography has discovered that the Soviets are building and operating a support pier to tend the nuclear-powered submarines that frequently call at Cam Ranh Bay. In the past few months, communications intercepts have picked up voices speaking native Russian from the control tower at Danang's military airfield, also U.S.-built. Says Vice Admiral Sylvester Foley, a deputy chief of naval operations in Washington: "In Viet Nam, the Soviets...
This idea that man is destined for higher things than work-not necessarily a realistic idea or even a meritorious one-provides the green light at the end of the pier. Says Albus: "The robot revolution will free human beings from the pressures of urbanization and allow them to choose their own life-styles from a much wider variety of possibilities...
...yowled that the boarding had been carried out by "police thugs acting like medieval pirates." But when Edwards also took actions to freeze the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Moscow warmed to the possibility of a settlement of the original bill plus interest, court costs and pier charges. While he was at it, Edwards also demanded, and duly received, a case of vodka and a pound of caviar for a celebration party. "Mr. Edwards," said one of his lawyers, "is one of the most unique clients we've ever...
Moravia visited the U.S. to attend a conference held this past weekend at Yale on the controversial Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini...
THREE MBTA STOPS and a short walk away a healthy herd of 800 Boston Brahmins munched on dessert and slurped the last of the champagne at Anthony's Pier 4. They were waiting to see why they dropped $500 each for lunch; they wanted to see Carter, and they wanted to hear him say something important...