Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slip Slidin...
...intelligence sources, the brigade occupies barracks in two locations in Cuba, one of which is near a Soviet-built and Soviet-run electronics information-gathering installation. Because the brigade's areas have been declared strictly off-limits for Cubans, it has been very difficult for the U.S. to slip in spies to gather intelligence on the spot. The brigade has a totally separate command from the Soviet advisers who have been located in Cuba since the early 1960s. Washington has long known about and accepted the fact that Cuba plays host to an estimated 2,000 Soviet military advisers, plus...
...Loss without war" is his warning. The Soviet leaders are not madmen, he notes, but they believe it means a good deal to be No. 1. So, too, may the Chinese, who could turn away from the U.S. if they see us continuing to slip. "They think we have the power now... but they question our will." So do others in the Nixon scenario. Germany and Japan must deal with a winner. The Saudis...
...boat, surprisingly, was left unguarded. It was moored with (about a dozen other small craft at the public dock, and it would have been a simple task for a terrorist to slip through the shadows and plant a bomb on it. That apparently is what happened. Police last week charged two men from the Irish Republic, Francis McGirl, 24, and Thomas McMahon, 31, with Mountbatten's murder. In a strange twist of circumstance, both men had been detained two hours before the bomb on Mountbatten's boat went off, at a routine roadside checkpoint 70 miles away...
...loosened my grip, and let the desk slip out of my hands; its full weight tumbled down on Ron, taking him totally by surprise. Down the stairs he rolled, limb over limb, flailing and silent; the desk mashed his head against a corner of the wooden rail, ripped his expensive IZOD shirt. A docksider moccasin flew off his foot. Bleeding from the mouth, he pulled himself up in a huff. He fetched his docksider and put it back...