United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit

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“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.”
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—Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)

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Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
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—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

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