Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact the plane's transponder was using a military channel helped lead to the conclusion aboard the cruiser Vincennes that the ship was about to be attacked, said Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard...
...warning issued by U.S. Navy Captain James Chandler could hardly have been plainer. If the Iranian patrol boat Joshan approached any closer to the U.S. guided-missile cruiser Wainwright, Chandler warned the Iranian craft by radio, "it is my intention to sink you." The Joshan's reply came quickly in the form of a deadly antiship missile. Chandler immediately ordered his crew to fire a hail of aluminum chaff into the air, which deflected the missile by confusing its radar guidance system. Moments later a second ship in the U.S. gulf convoy, the frigate Simpson, unleashed an SM-1 missile...
...small hours of that Sunday morning, when two Cambridge police officers entered Adams House C-Entry to check on a noise complaint. Before the police left, a scuffle broke out between Fernando Marti '88-'89 and the officers. They dragged him down the stairs and slammed him against their cruiser, according to eyewitness reports...
...store usually suggests the City Cruiser, "the perfect city bike," to student bikers and city bikers who are not serious about the cycling sport, Weber says. The Cruiser is a three-speed bicycle, which can survive the rough, badly paved streets of Cambridge, employees say. The model also lasts forever, says Weber, because it does not break down in icy or rainy weather...
Freedom of navigation, a principle the U.S. Navy fought to assert against Libya in the Gulf of Sidra in 1986, was at stake again last week in the Black Sea. Two U.S. warships, the destroyer Caron and the cruiser Yorktown, sailed about ten miles off the Crimean peninsula in the Soviet Union. The ships were warned that they were violating Soviet territorial waters and then were bumped, the Caron by a Soviet patrol craft and the Yorktown by a destroyer. Damage was slight, and there were no casualties...