Word: ferryboat
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...shock waves almost as strong as those of the original battle. The find started a gold rush-to the delight of Sadami Umeno, mayor of Tsushima's isolated principal town of Kamitsushima (pop. 7,300). "We would like to have a hospital and a 3,000-ton ferryboat," said the mayor, suggesting that the treasure hunt entitled the island to some benefits it was previously promised. "We might even have an airport built...
...with church projects: an internationally regarded religious and scientific convention center, a school for deaf-mutes, a school to preserve traditional handicrafts, technical schools with new dormitories so students from remote villages could attend, an experimental farm to raise improved crops and livestock. In 1966, when a ferryboat to Athens sank in a bad storm, drowning more than 200 people, Eirinaios denounced the neglect of safety on the aging boats. He also rallied small shareholders to establish their own well-run ferry line. People's ferries have since been started on four other islands...
KUWAIT, Feb. 7, 1974 Palestinians take over Japanese embassy, hold ambassador and ten others hostage. Their goal: release of besieged Japanese Red Army and Palestinian commandos who had been holding hostages for a week on a Singapore ferryboat. The hostages are finally freed, and the guerrillas fly to Aden...