Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American businessman has a very poor concept of the Japanese consumer. Compared with the more compact Japanese appliances, the American versions are marveled at as gargantuan rather than considered for purchase. The same is true of American cars. On narrow Japanese streets, many American automobiles resemble a cruising battleship. As an American living in Japan, I could not buy American products even if I wanted to because of their incompatibility with the Japanese lifestyle...
Perhaps the most exciting event of the new year was the kick-off of the news TV series, "Battleship Galactica," with a special three-hour segment two weeks ago. The show was made even more dramatic when it was interrupted by the announcement that the Camp David talks had resulted in agreement on a framework for peace in the Middle East...
...Navy has been the nation's favorite means of flexing its muscles. A 1976 survey by the Brookings Institution found that in the 215 cases since World War II in which military force was used for political goals, the Navy was deployed 177 times. A visit by the battleship Missouri to Istanbul in 1946 countered mounting Soviet pressures on Turkey, for example, while in 1958 U.S. amphibious activity off Lebanon's coast bolstered a friendly government in Beirut. More recently, the rescue of the U.S. freighter Mayaguez in 1975 after its capture by Cambodian Communists demonstrated America's continuing interest...
...Gone forever is the battleship. The last of them, the U.S.S. Wisconsin, was retired in 1958, although the U.S.S. New Jersey was briefly taken out of mothballs ten years later and deployed off the coast of South Viet Nam until December...
...advocate abandoning the flanks of NATO." On most other points, however, the Navy's critics continue to reject the service's arguments, stressing that the carriers have become extraordinarily vulnerable when they push close to the Soviet Union. Just as the introduction of sea-based aircraft eventually ended the battleship's reign, so the cruise missile, with its potential for pinpoint accuracy at long range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed...