Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been 23 years since Fidel Castro, then a beardless young rebel of 30, set sail with a revolutionary band of 81 guerrillas from the Mexican port of Tuxpan for Cuba's Oriente province. Last week the hirsute Cuban leader returned to the land from which he had launched his successful revolt against the government of Fulgencio Batista. At the invitation of President José López Portillo, Castro made a 32-hour visit to the resort island of Cozumel, with a brief stop on the mainland. Between meetings with López Portillo, who effusively welcomed...
...that British campaigns had hardly changed since he covered them for the Associated Press. White was with Foreign Secretary David Owen when that Labor candidate for a parliamentary seat in Plymouth, Devon, pumped constituents' hands on the historic quay where, on Sept. 6, 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World. Owen, reports White, drew fewer bystanders than did the nearby Mayflower memorial plaque. "After all," says White, "it's the tourist season here...
...idea, just as long as the levy would contain a so-called plowback provision that would permit them to reduce windfall taxes by investing the money in exploration. Congress could well go along with a plowback. Though Carter has attacked the scheme as a loophole "that you can sail an oil tanker through," he may find that without a plowback he will have real trouble getting...
...fleet of swanboats, outfitted in a new coat of white paint, set sail last week for their 101st season plying the waters of a small pond in the middle of the Public Garden. Several hundred people turned up for opening day, all of them, like Byrd, happy to be free from the arctic grip of winter and ready for a leisurely lunch-hour cruise...
...defense of the West. At Malta's Grand Harbor, British and Maltese officials unveiled a monument symbolically depicting the departure of British forces. Next day Britain's last military commander on the island, Rear Admiral Oswald Cecil, boarded the guided-missile destroyer H.M.S. London, and set sail for home...