Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mete out justice than to pressure the Bonn government into cracking down on the flourishing business of helping East Germans, principally highly trained professionals like doctors and engineers, to escape to the West. Stiff jail sentences were part of the message. One of the accused, a West Berlin seaman named Karl-Heinz Hetzschold, 30, got 11½ years for damaging East German interests and illegal profiteering. The lightest sentence was seven years for long-haired Hans-Dieter Voss...
...assassination attempts documented in the book-with the lone exception of one by an embittered seaman who blamed De Gaulle for the World War II destruction of the French fleet by the British-sprang from De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria. That policy led to the creation of the militant terrorist group known as the Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.), one of whose principal goals was to kill De Gaulle for having betrayed Algérie française. The authors, Pierre Démaret, 31, who once belonged to the O.A.S., and Christian Plume...
Nowhere are the new gangs more virulently active than in Philadelphia, where over half of all violent crime in the city is committed by juveniles; in the past five years 191 youngsters have died in gang wars and gang-related assassinations. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman spent some time on the streets of the City of Brotherly Love and sent this report...
...knows the movements of the navigator's stars. His library is charts and pilot manuals. His bible is the American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch, a one-volume encyclopedia of seagoing wisdom that was first published in 1802 and remains a remarkably complete collection of everything a seaman needs to know...
...Army in recent years seems to be finding a home in the Navy now that it is doing much of the fighting. Acts of sabotage have surfaced in recent months, several of which were apparently perpetrated not by blacks but by antiwar whites. The Navy is holding a white seaman as the suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white...