Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missile's launch and the Phalanx system remaining off. This was clearly a tragic failure for a vessel sailing in an area where more than 200 ships have been attacked during the past three years. "Everybody in town knew there was a war going on in the gulf except the Navy," says Jeffrey Record, a military analyst with the Hudson Institute. The Navy appointed a board of inquiry to examine possible lapses in judgment and equipment, but it cautioned against drawing too many conclusions about the vulnerability of the American Navy...
...West Europeans and Japanese recognize their vulnerability in the gulf but are unable to match the U.S. or Soviet military presence in that far-flung region. Japan's constitution prohibits deployment by warships beyond 1,000 nautical miles from the home islands except on training cruises. That forces Japanese tankers to either restrict their operations in the gulf or sail unprotected under the dubious cover of night. Britain keeps only two frigates in gulf waters on a rotating basis, and France, which has four destroyers stationed in the western Indian Ocean, shows the flag from time to time by sending...
...mayor, who contends that he has "never even seen cocaine except in the movies," rejected suggestions by his lawyer, Griffin Bell, Carter's former Attorney General, that he plead the Fifth Amendment lest the grand jury prove a political trap. Young and Bond, who also denied using coke, are prominent black Democrats, and they are eager to clear up the matter well before their party holds its national convention in Atlanta next year...
...Blaming the victim is a very sexist defense," says Kelli Conlin of the National Organization for Women. "It started with rape cases. The idea was 'She asked for it.' " In recent years, though, new rape-shield laws have excluded from trials evidence regarding a rape victim's sexual past, except any previous relationship with the alleged attacker...
...weeks ago, 18 guerrillas died here in a MiG attack, but this time the napalm and high explosives fell wide of the mark, exploding to the north and south of the knoll. The MiGs then turned back toward Kabul, except for one jet that was trailing smoke. It headed toward the nearby airfield at Jalalabad...