Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every voyager has the eyes of Christopher Columbus." So wrote François Mitterrand about his first visit to the U.S., when he was a young politician in 1946. This week America's doors will open wide again for France's new President as he travels to Yorktown, Va., to join President Ronald Reagan in celebrating the bicentennial of the Franco-American military victory that ended the Revolutionary War. In addition, Mitterrand will spend five hours in meetings with Reagan before continuing on to Cancun, Mexico, for a 22-nation summit meeting to discuss economic cooperation between rich...
...these historic woods, where the American Revolutionary Army under George Washington prepared for the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, the Scouts reflect a profile of young America, the face of its future. A Scout is white or black, Hispanic or Asian. He is not poor. He could be called the son of America's middle class...
...dumping of the polluted muck around two uninhabited islands in his district. The islands are favorite anchorages for Chesapeake Bay boaters and crab fishermen, who are anxious to keep the waters clean. But Bentley, who has dubbed herself "the Fighting Lady" after the World War II aircraft carrier Yorktown, insists that the harbor must be deepened to protect jobs in the Baltimore area...
Bernice Guest Yorktown Heights...