Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters represented the New England Campaign to Stop the Euromissiles and chose the AVCO site, because that company allegedly produces components for the Pershing Missiles. Redlich said the protest was an effort "to prevent the land from being used to create a nuclear oven...
...role as a middleman has changed to that of a leading player in the drug scene. Last May, in Panama's Darien rain forest, authorities came upon an elaborate cocaine laboratory, almost identical to the complexes across the Colombian border. Some of the 22 Colombians arrested at the site claimed that they had earned the right to process cocaine by paying off a leading Panamanian official. The Colombians were sent home without being charged with a crime...
Last week the Communist government of Laos allowed a twelve-man U.S. "technical" team, including two explosives experts and a medic, to enter the country, excavate the crash site and hunt for the victims. Late in the week, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Bangkok reported that the searchers found portions of human bones that might be those of missing crewmen...
...result of three years of off-and-on negotiations. In 1982 Laos permitted a visit to the scene by a group from the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. In December 1983, U.S. military technicians were allowed to survey the site to plan an excavation. But it was not until last July that the Laotians agreed "in principle" to the search, the first official mission to recover U.S. remains in Laos since the Viet Nam War ended in 1975. Early this month, permission finally came through to begin the work...
...year from now Harvard Square will be the site, of the first of three Cambridge Discovery, Inc. information booths--the result of City Councilor Francis H. Duchay's effort to increase knowledge of the city to both residents and tourists. According to a descriptive report of the project, "the groups benefitting from this integrated program include tourists and local residents and the business community and municipality...