Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most spectacular shift in the Pentagon's long-range plans is a sharply accelerated shipbuilding program. Declared Weinberger: "We must have naval superiority. Control of the seas is as essential to our security as control of their land borders is to the Soviet Union." The goal is a fleet of some 600 ships by 1990, compared with today's 456. That increase would give the U.S. 15 naval battle groups,** three more than at present. According to Navy Secretary John Lehman, it would permit the U.S. to challenge the Soviet navy even in the northern seas between Iceland...
...ship construction will begin with an extra $367 million this year and $3.8 billion in 1982. To get a faster start on refurbishing the fleet, Weinberger wants to pull two 1940s battleships, the Iowa and New Jersey, out of mothballs in the ports of Philadelphia and Bremerton, Wash., and put them back in service. He would do the same with the aircraft carrier Oriskany, now in Bremerton. It will take at least two years and cost more than $860 million to re-equip the vessels, which are up to 38 years old. But, claimed Weinberger, "no other ship...
Britons were horrified last month when Rupert Murdoch, the sensation-mongering Australian publisher, bought London's revered though unprofitable Times newspapers. Now another Fleet Street stalwart, the 190-year-old Sunday Observer, has been sold to an improbable new owner. He is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, the chief executive of a $5 billion. London-based conglomerate called Lonrho Ltd.; his secretiveness and taste for takeovers have led him to be described by a former Prime Minister as "the unacceptable face of capitalism...
...contender, Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg, is Catholic, Lady Diana is an Anglican and thus presents no legal obstacle to marriage with the man who, as King, will head the Church of England. Unlike another of the Prince's dates, the lovely Davina Sheffield, she is also what Fleet Street calls "a girl without a past." This is a matter of some consequence to the Prince, who was mortified in 1976 when Davina's ex-boyfriend publicly commended her wifely virtues, having sampled them, he said, while the two lived together. Diana's pristine past is also...
...shared with three other young women. To her horror, she was snapped holding one of her charges at the nursery school where she taught, the sun at her back clearly outlining her legs and thighs through a diaphanous skirt. That caused a sensation, but it was only the beginning. Fleet Street's overheated tabloids, used to concocting royal "romances" on the scantiest of evidence-a day at the races with Lady Camilla Fane, a chat at the polo grounds with Secretary Jane Ward-regularly made up quotes and printed rumors. Diana was ambushed by paparazzi while riding...