Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Vietnamese capital and the key port of Haiphong. The Administration assembled the strongest air and sea armada in Indochina since the war last peaked in 1968. More than 150 fresh planes were rushed to the theater from bases as far away as North Carolina; the B-52 fleet has been nearly doubled since the North Vietnamese offensive began. When Midway and Saratoga join the four aircraft carriers now on station off North Viet Nam, the U.S. and the South Vietnamese will have 150 ships and over 1,000 aircraft, equipped with some of the most sophisticated weaponry...
...bombing for fear of political reaction at home; Rogers and Kissinger were scarcely more enthusiastic, though evidently less concerned about what might happen politically. Finally the President made up his mind. Top-secret instructions were sent in code via satellite to the B-52 bases and to the Seventh Fleet. Next day he sent the order to raid Hanoi and Haiphong. Within a few hours, the B-52s lifted off the long runways and the Phantoms catapulted from carrier decks in the Tonkin Gulf...
...first time that North Vietnamese MIGs had attacked American warships-and the first time since 1964 that the U.S. Seventh Fleet had been challenged in any way in the Gulf of Tonkin. North Vietnamese shore batteries managed to hit the guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Buchanan, killing one crew member and wounding seven. In the heaviest sea action of the week, U.S. ships on two occasions spotted on radar a number of North Vietnamese patrol boats moving toward them at high speed. The Navy opened fire, sinking three and possibly four of the vessels, and damaging two more...
...embargo on arms shipments to Greece. The island of Crete is being turned into a NATO nuclear base. Presently the U.S. is trying to secure permanent home port facilities in Piraeus and other major Greek ports. And with troubles in Turkey, Greece is becoming the whorehouse of the Sixth Fleet...
...other two-thirds of Harvard's lightweight fleet, the JV and freshman boats, fared better than the top eight. The JVs overwhelmed Columbia and Rutgers, coming in a full 15 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor. The freshmen, rowing in their first competitive race, won by a 10-second margin...