Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ranger, accompanied by seven support ships, steamed south from San Diego toward Nicaragua's Pacific shore. The Pentagon planned to send two additional carriers into the region in August. Preparations also were made for joint maneuvers in Honduras that could involve up to 5,000 troops rotating in and out over a six-month period. "There is a desire to provide a boost to the morale of the Hondurans and the Salvadorans and to show that U.S. power is not rhetoric," said a senior U.S. diplomat. But the ostentatious making of waves, which seemed an attention grabber rather than...
...producers. Entrepreneurs apply for price supports and, as required by federal law, take 15% to 20% of their cropland out of production. In effect, range plowers break prairie land that may have little agricultural value and collect money for keeping it out of cultivation. Says Bernie Spanogle, district forest ranger at the Pawnee National Grassland in Colorado: "People are farming the federal crop programs, not the land...
...wandering off. The Government is also beefing up its patrols. One purpose is to keep an eye out for poachers. Another is to educate the flood of visitors expected again this summer, telling them of the dangers both to themselves and the bears from chance meetings. Says Chief Park Ranger Tom Hobbs: "The grizzly won't change his habits. We have to change ours...
Also on UTV are "Visions," a program or which student filmmakers show their work and discuss it, and "The High-Rise Ranger," which is "rather like the Galloping Gourmet," Simensky said...
...board the aircraft carrier Ranger, she talked to the pilot of a one-passenger A-7 Corsair ("So you are all on your own in there?" said she. "Yes ma'am," said he) and met a sailor called Groucho Marx. The Queen (who is Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom) and Prince Philip, turned out in his Admiral of the Fleet's dress blues, had a wardroom lunch with 50 Ranger officers. The menu included lobster, despite Her Majesty's widely supposed aversion to eating shellfish abroad,* and wine, thanks to a Washington waiver...