Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curious Battle. Off the Syrian coast, the first naval encounter ended in a clear-cut Israeli victory: missile boats armed with the highly touted Israeli-made Gabriel missile attacked and sank four Syrian missile ships of the Russian Komar class and one small motor torpedo boat...
...everyone going to start selling rocking chairs and little torpedo boats?" Cambridge City Planner Robert Boyer asked last week. He said he wanted to find out if Harvard Square can "stand the high level of transiency that would result from the tourists...
...said he felt the environmental impact statement should assess the total potential impact of the Kennedy Library on Harvard Square, including the impact on the business district. "For example, is everyone going to start selling rocking chairs and little torpedo boats?" he asked. Boyer said he also wants the report to ask if Harvard Square can "stand the high level of transiency that would result from the tourists...
Iceland denies that any such incident took place. Nonetheless, the British government ordered the Royal Navy frigates HMS Plymouth, Cleopatra and Jupiter to accompany the British fishing trawlers. All are armed with missiles and carry torpedo-bearing helicopters. Said Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Joseph Godber: "The Navy is not going to stand by and see our trawlers chivied by Icelandic gunboats...
...assigning blame, others looked to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who certainly was doing everything within his power to torpedo the proposed agreement. Inevitably, too, the Nixon-Kissinger relationship was scrutinized more earnestly than ever for frictions. It became a journalistic fashion to look for "light between" the President and his adviser. There was some encouragement for this activity from within the White House, notably from Haldeman, who considers himself an extension of Nixon and deeply resents Kissinger's high profile and the fact that Kissinger is not subordinate to him as is everyone else on the President...