Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head of the gulf, Kuwaiti tankers flying the American flag were loading cargoes at Al-Ahmadi in preparation for the trip south under U.S. Navy escort...
...Bridgeton took on oil at week's end and another reflagged tanker, the Gas Prince, began its return trip with a full load, it was all too clear that the gulf is no place for ill-conceived operations. Had the mine been struck by a U.S. warship instead of the Bridgeton, the result might well have been yet another tragedy, with no easy way to retaliate. Indeed, from its inception, the whole reflagging operation has seemed drawn from Alice's curiouser and curiouser looking-glass world...
...Shinzaburo Kato, 59, managing director of Kawasaki Steel, was a top executive in an industry that lost $2 billion last year. A frequent overseas traveler, he died of a stroke in June while on a business trip...
Given all the frustrations and rebuffs, why did Shultz not resign? In fact, Shultz testified, he offered to resign on three occasions, none directly related to the Iranian arms deals. The first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan...
...lawsuit grew out of the revelation last November by the News of the World, a rival tabloid, that Archer, 47, had offered to pay for an overseas trip by Monica Coghlan, a 36-year-old London call girl. Coghlan had claimed to the News of the World that Archer paid her $100 to have sex with her. The paper urged her to call Archer, who offered to pay her $3,000 for a trip out of the country to escape reporters. The tabloid then published an account of those conversations but never explicitly claimed that Archer had known Coghlan...