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...waves up to 90 ft. high and wind gusts of hurricane velocity, Europe's North Sea is one of the world's most inhospitable places to look for oil and gas. Since drilling began there more than a decade ago, in a gamble by five nations to wrest black gold from Northern Europe's front yard, at least 21 lives have been lost in drownings and other mishaps. The North Sea has also been terribly unforgiving of mechanical mistakes. Supporting buoyancy tanks ruptured last year on a new gas-production platform, sending its legs crashing...
...latest fighting broke out when the M.P.L.A. decided to wrest control of Luanda from the bigger and better armed F.N.L.A. Using the truce as a cover, M.P.L.A. troops attacked and destroyed F.N.L.A. offices in Luanda, forcing its leaders to flee to the north of the country. Fearful for their lives and property, storekeepers and many industries shut down. As food and fuel ran out, the Portuguese High Commissioner, General António da Silva Cardoso, appealed to the United Nations for emergency relief supplies...
...French a couple of nuclear bombs, shortly before the fall of Dien Bien Phu, it was the United States that encouraged Ngo Dinh Diem to cancel the nation wide elections to reunite a divided Vietnam that had been called for in the Geneva agreement of 1954. After helping Diem wrest control of the South Vietnamese army, the United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave their homes and enter stockades. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh continued to work in the villages...
Without frontally assaulting any of Jacobsen's claims, Williams managed to wrest a damaging series of admissions from him. Williams asked Jacobsen to go through the 280 bills that made up the first $10,000 for those bearing the signature of George Shultz, Connally's successor as Treasury Secretary, and 49 of them did. If Jacobsen's story is true, it seems puzzling indeed that Connally blundered by including so many Shultz bills. The purpose of the alleged exercise, after all, was to make it seem the money had been in Jacobsen's safe-deposit...
Northeastern's Bob Lech stormed past Joel Peters in the last 50 yards of the mile relay Saturday to wrest the Greater Boston collegiate track championship from Harvard for only the second time in the last 12 years...