Initially assigned lifeguard duty for downed U. S. aviators in the western Caroline Islands, the USS Harder was vectored on April 1 to rescue an injured navy pilot on a small enemy-held island just west of Woleai, which had been hit that day by an American aircraft carrier strike.

( Initially composed of an infantry division, eventually covering all Brazilian military forces who participated in the conflict.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

Initially pagan, the Goths were in the 4th century converted to Arian Christianity by the Gothic missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible.

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

Initially successful, the colonists were driven out by local forces commanded by Murdoch and Neil MacLeod, who based their forces on Bearasaigh in Loch Ròg.

Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels, or servers.

Initially, this was caused by the revulsion over the summary executions of 16 leaders — some of whom, such as James Connolly, who was too weak to stand from wounds sustained in the fighting — and of other people thought complicit in the rebellion.

Initially the move was unpopular, but those who objected were simply killed, a practice that quickly concentrated the minds of remaining personnel.

Initially the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.

Initially, concerns for secrecy kept their military designation from being known by the soldiers who operated them.

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax ( a combination of " free ", " freak ", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system ), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds ' directory linux.

Initially, the FBI had three hypotheses regarding who might have been responsible for the bombing.

Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

Initially, the consuls possessed all of the king ’ s powers in the form of two men, elected for a one-year term, who could veto each others actions.

Initially developing out of the trad jazz, skiffle and folk club scenes, early artists tended to focus on major blues performers and standard forms, particularly Alexis Korner, who acted as a mentor to members of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Graham Bond Organisation and The Kinks.

Initially, she did not notice that the bus driver was the same man, James F. Blake, who had left her in the rain in 1943.

Initially a " rancho carnavalesco ", then a Carnival's Block, and finally a samba school, the Deixa Falar was the first to Rio Carnival parade in the sound of an orchestra made up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and shakers.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Initially when the production staff was talking about who was going to take the composing duties, Chris Carter did not know whom to ask.

Initially scheduled for 1992, the referendum has not taken place, due to the conflict over who has the right to vote.

Initially the groupe comprised a group of French fighter pilots sent to aid Soviet forces on the Eastern Front at the suggestion of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, who felt it important that French servicemen serve on all fronts in the war.

Initially, this had helped the wealthy to accumulate more of the trappings of wealth, but as prices rose, those landlords who received payment in cash found themselves in financial straits.

Initially, Humphrey's support of civil rights led to his being ostracized by Southern Democrats, who dominated most of the Senate leadership positions and who wanted to punish Humphrey for proposing the successful civil rights platform at the 1948 Convention.

Initially attracted to London by the " strange new subject called psychoanalysis ", he met and was impressed by Wilfred Trotter, an outstanding brain surgeon who had also written the famous Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War in 1916, based on the horrors of the First World War.

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Initially, she encountered similar problems as she had experienced at Blake Hall.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially, the M-19 attracted a degree of attention and sympathy from mainstream Colombians that the FARC and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) had found largely elusive earlier due to extravagant and daring operations, such as stealing a sword that had belonged to Colombia's Independence hero Simon Bolívar.

Initially it was a supporting material publication for White Bear and Red Moon but for its 11th issue, in 1981, it had become the official RuneQuest magazine.

Initially formed to fight against counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, as well as financial speculators, Cheka had its own classifications.

Initially he sought to avoid the kind of sectarianism he had seen in England.

Initially the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment.

Initially Sorel had officially been a revisionist of Marxism, but by 1910 announced his abandonment of socialist literature and claimed in 1914, using an aphorism of Benedetto Croce that " socialism is dead " because of the " decomposition of Marxism ".

Initially, little drastic change in government policy had occurred and repressive police actions were limited.

Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles.

Initially a kingdom, the Roman Republic was founded in 509 BC, and would grow steadily over the next several centuries until it had supplanted Greek culture as the dominant Mediterranean civilization.

Initially, Luther and Calvin had mutual respect for each other.

Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, but by March 1939 German demands had been rejected by the Poles three times, which led Hitler to decide, with enthusiastic support from Ribbentrop, upon the destruction of Poland as the main German foreign policy goal of 1939.

Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.

Initially its spread was confined to PARC and a few universities to which Xerox had donated some Altos.

Initially, Henry refused to see Beatrice, but eventually he had her imprisoned in rough conditions ; the young Frederick was treated more appropriately, but he died in Henry's custody nonetheless ( the rumours that he was murdered are baseless ).

Initially this was done because it was easier to provide good insulation for the secondary winding of an external coil than it was in a coil buried in the construction of the magneto ( early magnetos had the coil assembly externally to the rotating parts to make them easier to insulate — at the expense of efficiency ).

Initially, of course, it had appeared that the war would be a short one settled in Germany's favor.

Initially, Saturn probably had a tilt closer to that of Jupiter ( 3. 1 °).