Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government promised to build a suitable mausoleum near the renowned Shwe Dagon pagoda. Before an agreement could be reached, however, Burmese troops and police unexpectedly stormed the campus and recovered the body. Their action led to riots throughout the capital. An angry crowd of 3,000 destroyed a police station; the Ministry of Cooperatives and two movie theaters were wrecked. Police opened fire in response. Although the government claimed that nine rioters had been killed, some reports indicated that there were many more dead and that hospitals were filling up with wounded. As martial law was imposed, heavily armed troops...
...radical overhaul after three cosmonauts were killed when a hatch seal failed in a 1971 flight. Even that redesign did not eliminate all the bugs. At the time of its previous test in August, Soyuz 15's thrusters failed during an attempted linkup with an unmanned Salyut space station...
...feeble plot has to do with what Roberts refers to as "scorching exposes" aired on the school's own television station. Not only is it mysteriously able to afford such electronic luxuries, but the student reporters have enviable connec tions in high places. They expose everything from White House "plumbers" and shaky missile deals to consumer fraud and child abuse. This does not go down well in a small southwestern town, and its ill will bubbles over into a slaughter by National Guardsmen obviously modeled on Kent State...
...press conference that his voluntary conservation program is "making headway." None of the alternatives is politically palatable, especially since the President has correctly told consumers that they need fear no physical shortage of gasoline and heating oil this winter. Consumers who are once again being wooed by gas-station owners offering free glasses and coupons may not take kindly to being told that they must sacrifice in order to keep the high price of imported oil from wrecking the U.S. trade balance. Disunited as they are about specific policies, though, the energy advisers agree with Frank Zarb, Ford...
...East as a whole is consistently immune to bowl fever, its lone pigskin potentate--Joe Paterno--is a walking, talking epidemic. When the Temples and the Boston Colleges fail to translate enthusiasm into bowl bids, Paterno's Nittany Lions from Penn State (13 miles from the gas station) stalk inexorably the big-time football jungle that lesser Eastern mortals never dare to enter. Six times in seven years they've played in bowls, and they've dumped Texas (Cotton, 1972), thrashed LSU (Orange, 1974) and given Oklahoma (Sugar, 1973) the Sooners' biggest scare in years...