Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stark Choice. The first word that Heath had decided to cut short his five-year term, which expires in June 1975, and seek a vote of confidence was received last week by Queen Elizabeth on the royal yacht Britannia, lying at anchor in Auckland's Waitemata Harbor. The Prime Minister requested Her Majesty to dissolve Parliament and grant permission for a general election to be held Feb. 28. The Queen quickly cabled her ritual assent and returned to her royal tour of New Zealand...
...dissenting groups is the ETA (Basque Nation and Freedom), a dedicated clan of about 600 Basque extremists. Since their military leader, Eustaqui Mendizabel, was killed in a Shootout with police last April, the Basques had been silent. Earlier this month, however, they burst into action again, invading an exclusive yacht club near Bilbao. While gunmen forced 100 diners to lie on the floor, other Basques set fire to the building, a symbol of a moneyed, privileged class favored by the Franco regime. Other more minor incidents, like the blowing up of cars, occurred in the following days, and there were...
...dolphins are kidnaped from the scientist (Scott) and trained to blow up the President of the U.S. as he vacations aboard his yacht. The would-be assassins are a cartel of cliches: a loudmouthed, cigar-chomping Westerner, an unctuous Middle European, a fatherly Ivy League type. The movie makes their plot a matter of as much concern and surprise as whether Pearl White will be cut loose from the railroad ties be fore the locomotive flattens...
...filmed in Paranoia." Yet another suggested that "Pat Gray threw the tapes away in his Christmas trash." Other explanations were tonsorial ("Haldeman made his new hairpiece out of synthetic materials made from shredded tapes"), recreational ("Bebe Rebozo made them into eight-track tapes and plays them on his yacht"), even sporting: "Nixon was watching the Redskins football game on TV. He had the tapes in his hands, and when the other team scored a winning touchdown, he got so angry that he tore the tapes to pieces." Perhaps the simplest reply: "Nixon knew that sooner or later he would have...
...coach ride through London streets, the couple slipped away in a limousine to the country lodge on the outskirts of London of Anne's cousin Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy. The next day they flew to Barbados for an 18-day honeymoon cruise on the royal yacht Britannia through the Caribbean to the Galapagos Islands, to be followed by an official tour of Ecuador, Colombia, Jamaica and the islands of Montserrat and Antigua. Home, after that, will be an eleven-room house at Sandhurst Military Academy, where Mark will be an instructor. Anne has professed...