Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case-by-case basis, given the situation in the Persian Gulf, we will escort [such] shipments to friendly non-belligerent countries," the statement added...
...Defense Department, in a statement released in response to press queries, said it decided to offer escort protection to the vessel because "it is important that the United States remain a reliable supplier of defense items to friendly countries...
...disclosure came as a surprise because the Reagan administration had previously announced plans only to provide escort protection to Kuwaiti oil tankers that changed their registry to the U.S. flag. That protection is expected to begin sometime early next month, according to Pentagon sources...
This gradual shift of attitudes has been reported out of Moscow, accompanied by an escort of journalistic cautions. Life in Moscow is a postgraduate course in skepticism for correspondents. When Gorbachev telephoned Sakharov in December to free him from nearly seven years of internal exile in Gorky, most of the initial speculation saw it as primarily a propaganda stunt for foreign consumption. The press corps in Moscow reminded everybody that the Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire...
...some $3 billion could be saved from the cost of the two carriers, estimated at $10.5 billion if begun in the 1990s. But a General Accounting Office study this month put the saving at only $700 million. Critics of the Navy noted that the cost of aircraft, missiles and escort ships pushes the total price for the two vessels up to $36 billion. Even as replacements, the two new carriers would cut heavily into the Navy's ability to provide the manpower, maintenance and operating funds required by its expanding fleet...