Word: bremerhaven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thundering shudder, followed by the wail of the ship's siren. In one of the Maxim Gorky's restaurants, as the pianist was playing The Green, Green Grass of Home, a heavy loudspeaker crashed down on the instrument. The passengers, almost all West German pensioners who had boarded in Bremerhaven, stumbled on deck into freezing...
After questioning soldiers from Bremerhaven to Grenada, combat command officers from Fort McPherson, Ga., reported that the response to the current B.D.U., introduced in 1981, was "universally unfavorable." That was putting it mildly. During last October's Grenada invasion, Marines temporarily equipped with the B.D.U. instead of the appropriate tropical gear complained that the fabric was heavy, sweaty and unkempt. Even soldiers in cooler climes agreed. Once wet, the uniform takes an excessive time to dry. The sleeves are too narrow to roll up easily, the collar too wide and the pants pockets hard to reach. Seams unravel, buttons...
...first major confrontation promised to be unpleasant. White-helmeted riot police in armored cars faced more than 2,500 antimissile demonstrators outside a U.S. Army barracks near the North Sea port of Bremerhaven, West Germany. As the protesters attempted to blockade the American installation, police laid down oversize coils of barbed wire and erected barricades on access roads, sealing off a perimeter a mile from the base. At one point, a military vehicle was accosted by demonstrators who scrawled PIGS and NO WAR on its side. Some 250 activists were dragged away, and water cannons were turned on hundreds more...