Word: towing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese relatives. She and Mills joined forces, and in a frantic two days in Saigon they rounded up 16 of her kin as well as the 20 relatives of the two students from San Francisco and five of Mills' old friends. He also took in tow a stray missionary and a student. By offering to be their sponsor, and talking persuasively to both U.S. and South Vietnamese officials. Mills got all 43 of the people aboard U.S. C-141s bound for Guam-and safety...
...extensive whirlwind tour of educational, health and agricultural facilities developed during the Castro regime. Cabled Hannifin: "Amiable, wisecracking and radiating charisma and confidence, Castro as usual turned up unexpectedly and unannounced, at a state agricultural farm managed by his half-brother Ramon. There he took the McGoverns in tow, riding around in his Russian-built command car (with a special rack for his Kalashnikov rifle...
...were flown out of Viet Nam to Thailand by escaping South Vietnamese pilots (and then largely recovered by the U.S.), dozens of aircraft fell into the Communists' hands, including 72 F-5s and A-37 jets. In addition, the North Vietnamese military picked up numerous M48 tanks, supersophisticated TOW missiles, Jeeps, trucks and crates of rifles and machine guns...
...cutbacks have been the subject of tow months of controversy on the Brown campus, with committees and coalitions forming and reorganizing weekly and students staging the two largest student rallies of the 70s within a month of each other...
TENNIS: In Eastern league tennis, Columbia and Penn both have started out with two wins in the first tow matches. Columbia, which won the Eastern title in 1972 and 1973, dumped Brown 8-1 and Yale 9-0 while the Quakers swept the Elis and Bruins by 8-1 margins. None of te other eastern teams have started the season but today Columbia is at Dartmouth, Navy at Brown, Princeton at Yale and Penn here at the Palmer Dixon courts. The match begins...