Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...aboard a flatbed truck and driven under heavy guard from the damaged missile site. Military officials, while not actually confirming that there was a warhead in the box-or that there ever had been one on the missile-indicated that the bomb was taken to Little Rock Air Force Base and shipped by air to an Amarillo, Texas, nuclear weapons plant for disassembly...
...drug pipeline from the Golden Crescent has few leaks. Raw opium is converted in makeshift laboratories near the fields into a more compact morphine base that is smuggled aboard freighters in Syria or Lebanon for shipment to Mediterranean ports, mainly in Sicily. There it is converted into heroin in secret laboratories controlled by Mafia dons with close family and business ties to their counterparts in the U.S. Almost all of Sicily's heroin-as much as three tons a year-is infiltrated into the U.S. by couriers on ostensibly legitimate flights, usually from Palermo to New York...
...baseball history by relieving Babe Ruth on the mound and pitching a virtually perfect game for the Boston Red Sox in 1917; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Ruth, then a pitcher, walked the first Washington batter, then was ejected for arguing with the umpire. After Shore came in, the base runner was caught stealing. Shore retired the next 26 batters and narrowly missed joining the eight pitchers who have thrown complete perfect games (facing 27 batters) since...
...Dinnan's 90 days are up. He may be returned to the courtroom to face Judge Owens again. And his case is also being reviewed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Meanwhile he has remained in prison at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. In a one-page broadside, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook blasted Judge Owens' decision as "one of the crassest illustrations of ill-considered and unjustified interventions of our imperial judiciary into the educational process." If discussions of promotion and tenure are to adhere to academic standards, Hook insisted...
Officials of both companies insisted last week that AMC management will remain in American hands. But Renault will now be able to name five of the 16 members of the company's board of directors. Renault is eager to use AMC's 1.65% market share as a base for further expansion into the U.S. market...