Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Navy officials said during a Pentagon briefing there was no question that the cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Caron had been struck deliberately by a Soviet frigate and a smaller coastal patrol boat, respectively...
That's where we come in. We've subleased an old cruiser from the Iranian navy and plan to stock it with cold kegs of beer. Then, when we spot a warship, we'll cruise right in front of it and drop these kegs off the stern. The sailors on the warship will then radio us their Mastercard or Visa numbers and scoop up the kegs. It's sure to be a moneymaker...
...Iraq that expanded the fighting into the Persian Gulf in 1984 by initiating the tanker war, thus endangering international oil shipments. The U.S. became an inadvertent victim of the last phase of the tanker war when on May 17 an Iraqi Exocet missile hit the cruiser U.S.S. Stark, killing 37 American sailors. The incident increased Administration resolve to protect neutral shipping in the gulf by reflagging and escorting the Kuwaiti tankers. Said one U.S. official in Washington: "Iraq owes us in the gulf. It owes us the U.S.S. Stark...
Reporting on the U.S. perspective in Washington were Correspondents Michael Duffy, a pool reporter on the cruiser U.S.S. Fox in the gulf only weeks before; David Aikman; Bruce van Voorst; and Barrett Seaman. Seaman traveled from TIME's bureau to the sweltering heat of the West Wing driveway to buttonhole congressional visitors, then to the air-conditioned White House back offices. "It was hardly as dangerous as the gulf," said Seaman, "but it did bring the threat of a good old-fashioned summer cold...
...duty understood, the cyborg takes to the streets in a Ford Taurus police cruiser, detecting crimes with his computer sensors and then swiftly disposing of the perpetration...