Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebels last week. First reports indicated that mojahedeen guerrillas had assaulted the station, seizing 20 technicians and sophisticated electronic equipment used to monitor Soviet missile tests. It later turned out that local citizens, seeking to make sure that they were paid for some work they had done at the base, had refused to let the technicians leave. After hasty consultations with Washington, Bazargan's government dispatched a plane carrying $200,000 in cash to settle the debt. The technicians were brought back to Tehran on an Iranian military plane, then hustled aboard a civilian flight to Paris...
Though State Department spokesmen asserted that all of the sensitive monitoring equipment had been removed or destroyed before the base was taken over, the episode raised new doubts about the security of the 77 advanced F-14 fighters that the U.S. has supplied to Iran. No American has been allowed to inspect them for three weeks, in part because the Iranians fear an attempt to destroy the equipment to prevent any possibility of its falling into Soviet hands. But the Carter Administration privately admits that there is little it can do to safeguard the planes. "They are entirely...
Other forces, meanwhile, hovered warily at sea within electronic range of the battlefronts. The Soviet Union reportedly sent a second missile-armed destroyer from Vladivostok to join the squadron of 13 Soviet ships already cruising near Viet Nam. A U.S. aircraft carrier left the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines to join a Seventh Fleet task force in the South China Sea. Moscow stepped up its resupply airlift to Viet Nam -in plain view of Holtzman and Evans at the Hanoi airport, as it happened-and was reported to have sent senior Soviet military officers to the Vietnamese capital...
...Soviet counterploys prompted U.S. concern that Moscow might want to establish a permanent port of call at Cam Ranh Bay, the sparkling white-sand harbor northeast of Saigon that served as the main U.S. Navy base in the Viet Nam War. Having rights to Cam Ranh would give the Soviets a dramatic new naval advantage and would pose a potential threat to Chinese and Western shipping lanes, especially Japan's petroleum lifeline through the Strait of Malacca. But with no overt Soviet moves by week's end, Western observers remained hopeful that Hanoi's independent-minded leaders...
...heartbeat is to teenagers and adults under 50, you try to have elements within those shows that appeal to under-teenagers and people over 50 at the same time. So you cover the spectrum. It's a very subtle but significant thing in terms of broadening your audience base...