Word: sheffield
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Britons too were reminded of the war. In London the Defense Ministry confirmed that the May 4, 1982, sinking of the British destroyer Sheffield, and the death of 20 crew members, resulted from a bizarre coincidence. The ministry said that the Sheffield's captain was on a communications hookup to naval headquarters at the precise moment an Argentine warplane fired an Exocet missile at the ship. The captain's unfortunately timed call had jammed the destroyer's radar system, allowing the craft to take a direct...
They brought out the barbecue about 4 o'clock, and when people had had their fill of pig, they drove home to places called Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Cherokee. Key Underwood said he never dreamed the thing would get this big. "When Troop got down where he couldn't stand up, I couldn't stand his suffering, so I called the vet. Then after he was gone I called the boys, and they said if ever a dog deserved a decent burial, this one did. I was gonna take him out to the dump, but then I said...
...years since he was elected Governor of Alaska, Bill Sheffield has been involved in four federal or state investigations into the handling of his campaign funds. Last week in a new inquiry, a 15-member state grand jury looking into the award of a $9.1 million state office-leasing contract recommended that a special session of the Alaska legislature be convened to consider impeaching the Democratic Governor. Said the grand jury's 69-page report: "The Sheffield administration has not best served the interests of the public and is unfit to fulfill the inherent duties of public office...
...grand jury investigation was launched in April after a newspaper reporter in Fairbanks questioned the awarding of a noncompetitive, ten-year contract for government office space to a company partly owned by Lenny Arsenault, a Sheffield campaign fund raiser. According to the jury's report, Sheffield and his staff manipulated lease specifications to guarantee that the firm would win the lucrative contract. Sheffield, who has denied the charges, said that he was "devastated" by the grand jury's findings. State legislators, who adjourned in May, will convene in Juneau on July 15 to consider the impeachment issue...
Arthur Scargill, the bellicose president of Britain's National Union of Mineworkers, makes no secret of his Marxist leanings. He even solicited financial support from the Soviets during the miners' 51-week strike that collapsed last March. Just before the union's annual conference in Sheffield last week, the Scargill-dominated N.U.M. executive board reaffirmed its Soviet connection by announcing the selection of 20 miners to attend the Higher Trade Union School in Moscow this fall. The 20, the second N.U.M. group to be sent to the Soviet school, will take a four-week course emphasizing the link between socialism...