Word: portsmouth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset, said refugees from Kolwezi, the rebels appeared to be tough and well regimented; they also knew their business. Harold Amstutz, of Portsmouth, Va., a pilot for the American Methodist mission in the city, radioed news of the invasion on the first day of the attack. The next time he tried to broadcast from his house, guerrillas swarmed through the neighborhood, banging on doors and shouting "Missionary! Missionary!" in an effort to locate Amstutz and his radio. Said the pilot: "They must have had good equipment, including a direction finder, to pick up my transmission that quickly...
...Hampshire Supreme Court yesterday upheld a Superior Court's ruling that the Clamshell Alliance holds a valid contract for the rental of the Portsmouth Armory for its Seabrook anniversary dance this Saturday...
...Saturday Review and Emmy Award-winning work as a television producer, published Incident at Exeter. In it he concluded that the unidentified flying objects sighted and reported around the country were of extraterrestrial origin. A year later, he wrote The Interrupted Journey, the preposterous account of a Portsmouth, N.H., couple who claimed to have been abducted by unearthly creatures...
...Helen Caldicott of the Boston Children's Hospital said she visited the Portsmouth Naval Base, where the nuclear submarines are being built, and found workers were "frightened to talk, and had obviously been intimidated...
...Boston Globe reported last month that several workers in the Portsmouth naval yard now suffer from cancer, but experts have stated there is no conclusive evidence linking exposure to low levels of radiation with a high incidence of cancer...