Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has scoffed at Weinberger's request as just an "expensive going-away present for Navy Secretary Lehman," while Democratic Senator Carl Levin has noted that the Pentagon's annual report to Congress last year said the two oldest carriers in the Navy's fleet did not have to be replaced until the 1990s. At a public hearing, Levin asked Weinberger, "How in the world did these two carriers slip into the budget?" The Secretary insisted that nothing had changed; since each takes about seven years to build, he was still merely "asking...
...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...
...from Grenada, the last time the Marines launched an amphibious assault under combat conditions was during the Korean War, when General Douglas MacArthur chose them for the Inchon landing. Marine strategists insist that the Corps retains a vital role in modern warfare. Lieut. General Alfred Gray, who commands the Fleet Marine Force (Atlantic), admits, "You'll never see staged assaults like Iwo Jima or Tarawa again." But Gray, who is thought to be one of the leading candidates to succeed Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley, adds, "Our mission is sustained power projection. For power to be sustained, it must come from...
Signs and portents? No, just the usual April Fools' Day fare from Fleet Street. It was not a bad year. But old-timers agreed that this year's fodder for the gullible did not measure up to the 1957 classic, when BBC TV had viewers believing they were watching footage of peasants busily harvesting pasta from spaghetti trees in an orchard on a Swiss-Italian farm...
...lengthy discussion of medallion transfers, Councilor Saundra Graham charged that Goldberg had already agreed to sell his 26-cab fleet to his competitor, an allegation that he denied...