Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranks, opposition began to surface. Pakistan's ambassadors to Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped a $68,000 shipment of tear gas, which had been widely used by Pakistani police in quelling disorders. Said a spokesman: "It's just a question of prudence...
...Point stands for "Graves Registration." These soldiers are the garbage men of combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand...
...addition to Morocco, France and Belgium have also sent military advisors to Zaire. The U.S. government announced Tuesday it is sending a second shipment of emergency aid to Mobutu--including a $9 million C130 plane and $4million in equipment...
...lavish personal taste, President Mobutu has so far managed the considerable feat of holding his mineral-rich country together. Almost helpless to influence the sudden state of affairs in Zaïre, the U.S. dispatched two planeloads of military supplies to Kinshasa; Belgium, the former colonial power, sent a shipment of light arms and got ready to dispatch a lot more. France and West Germany also dispatched aid to Kinshasa...
...between the Soviets, Occidental Petroleum, El Paso and a group of Japanese firms to develop a major field near Yakutsk in Siberia. After years of negotiating, the Soviets are still surveying the area. If the deal finally goes through, gas would be piped 2,000 miles to Vladivostok for shipment to the U.S. and Japan...