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** Pacific Rim, political and economic term used to designate the countries on the edges of the Pacific Ocean as well as the various island nations within the region
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** Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995
** Californian tribes ( Northern ): Yok-Utian, Pacific Coast Athabaskan, Coast Miwok, Yurok, Palaihnihan, Chumashan, Uto-Aztecan
** Record ( magazine ), the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
** international: country code-82 ; 10 fiber-optic submarine cables-1 Korea-Russia-Japan, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong, 3 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-China-Europe, 1 Korea-Japan-China-US-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ) and 3 Inmarsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean )
** Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.
** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.
** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.
** Gavin MacLeod, American actor and Mayor of Pacific Palisades ( The Mary Tyler Moore and The Love Boat )
** Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot ; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
** and Rim
** The other areas of the world where numerical classifier systems are common in indigenous languages are the western parts of North and South America, so that numerical classifiers could even be seen as a pan-Pacific Rim areal feature.
** Canyon Creek band ( Gołkizhn-‘ Spotted on Top People ’, likely refers to a mountain that is spotted with junipers, lived along Canyon Creek, a tributary of the Salt River in the Mogollon Rim area, western band of the Cibecue Apache )
** California, Alaska, Arizona ( excluding the Raytheon offices in the Tucson area ), Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington state, as well as audits in Asian Pacific Rim countries and Australia
** Massachusetts, northern New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire, plus audits in Europe, Asia ( including Israel and the Middle East, but excluding the Pacific Rim ), and Africa, and all audits relating to Raytheon regardless of the physical location of the segment or division involved.
** Scenic Rim Region-a pastoral area inland from the Gold Coast known for its scenic mountains and villages.
** and political
** From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power, a book on political philosophy by Saul Newman
** Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta
** Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party
** Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario
** Peace process in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, efforts since c. 1991 to find a political accommodation for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
** New York Times Co. v Sullivan ( 376 US 254 1964 ): The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.
** The National Movement of the Revolution is instituted as the sole legal political party in the Republic of Congo.
** The government of Haiti declares a state of siege, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents.
** South Africa's National Party pulls out of the 2-year-old coalition government, and the African National Congress assumes full political control.
** The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.
** Phil Ochs, American folk singer and political activist ( Outside of a Small Circle of Friends ) ( b. 1940 )
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