Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affidavit, Rear Admiral William Studeman, director of Naval Intelligence, outlined the "potential . . . war-winning implications for the Soviet side." Among other things, he said, decoding messages enabled the Soviets to figure out the location and routes of Navy vessels. For example, they may have learned the "operations order for Fleet Exercise 83-1, a unique exercise conducted near the Soviet coast by three carrier battle groups" in 1983, as well as the "communications plan for all U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...
...contact with operational units." Worst of all, wrote the admiral, the damage will continue long after codes and communications plans are changed because the Soviets gauged the "true capabilities and vulnerabilities of the U.S. Navy (and) identified the specific steps which could achieve the largest gains" in enabling their fleet to fight more effectively. In recent years, said Studeman, "we have seen clear signals of dramatic Soviet gains in all naval warfare areas, which must now be interpreted in light of the Walker-Whitworth espionage conspiracy." There is a lingering fear, too, not mentioned in the court papers, that Whitworth...
...still near the peak of the summer travel season, but an eerie silence reigned last week in Concourse D at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. Nearby, the entire 42-aircraft passenger fleet of Frontier Airlines sat grounded. In the terminal building, there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
...being kept alive largely on the $46.7 million from United. Chicago-based United had conditioned the Frontier purchase in part on reaching an agreement with its 6,435-member chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association. Unless those pilots consented to let their Frontier counterparts join the United fleet at substantially lower wage levels, at least for a time, the People Express deal would be off. Despite much negotiation, the United pilots, who made substantial wage concessions only last year, continued to balk. United, which had already claimed some of Frontier's valuable gates and hangars at Stapleton in exchange...
Nathaniel Saltonstall, Class of 1659, is said to have refused to participate in the Salem witch trials. Sir Richard Saltonstall, the family scion, spoke out against slavery early in the 17th century. Another Saltonstall refused to obey orders and lost a fleet in the War of 1812. He was discharged from the U.S. Navy...