Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ships this year starkly illustrates the dilemma. It placed the ships in mothballs in order to comply with a congressional order that it trim the sails of its 1983 spending. But the Navy did not want to cut planned procurement of new ships. Of the 13 Forrest Sherman-class escort destroyers that were retired, twelve had been extensively overhauled within the past two years. Of the four Decatur-class guided-missile destroyers retired, three had been recently overhauled. Even some Navy fleet commanders were dismayed by the retirement of five landing-dock ships (four of which had recently been overhauled...
Rani Kronick '84, the head of the college's Disabled Students Organization called for more equitable conditions for disabled women on campus, including a more efficient night escort service...
...area closed to the public to take photographs of several holes in pipe lining releasing what they believed to be asbestos dust while attending to an unrelated union business matter. Powers barred all Local 26 officials from the University campus without his prior permission and an official Harvard escort...
Kenney charged that Edward Powers, associate general counsel for Employee Relations, called her yesterday and said that she and other officials from Local 26 were forbidden all access to Harvard property without an escort. Kenney said she plans to file an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board today...
...kind" and insisted that four AWACS radar planes had flown to Egypt only for routine "training exercises." But Administration officials had earlier leaked two disclosures: the planes were sent in response to anxiety about a Libyan military threat, and the U.S.S. Nimitz aircraft carrier, chaperoned by three escort vessels, had sailed away from Lebanon and toward Egypt. This was the same Nimitz from which, in August 1981, U.S. F-14 fighters had shot down two Libyan aircraft in the Gulf of Sidra...