Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forcing his executive officer to procure signatures of other officers on a false combat report recommending him for a Silver Star. With that report, two junior officers file a second report outlining Arnheiter's three-month reign on the Vance; after several days of intense study, the Pacific fleet commander relieves Arnheiter pending on investigation. After dismissal at a Navy hearing. Arnheiter takes his appeal to Washington, where Sheehan first encounters him. Here is where Sheehan begins his book, subtly tying each new detail into a larger pattern which leads to the inescapable conclusion that the Navy did only what...
...Athens. Meanwhile, he maneuvered for help. Both the Soviet and Polish press criticized the idea of outside forces interfering with the internal decisions of Cyprus. Moscow apparently connects the Cyprus crisis with a recent agreement between the U.S. and Greece that allows dependents of men serving with the Sixth Fleet to be based around Athens. Moscow fears that Greece and Turkey might amalgamate sections of the island directly into their two nations. In that case, Cyprus could become an extension of NATO and another possible shelter for the U.S. fleet...
...white man's burden, but some vestigial splendor remained as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Princess Anne began their five-week tour of Southeast Asia with a five-day state visit to Thailand. Prince Philip -uniformed as an Admiral of the Fleet-commanded the royal launch as it left the royal yacht and swooshed up to Bangkok's royal pier, where the English royals were greeted by the Thai royals, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Then there was a ride in the royal Daimler through cheering throngs, a walk over a flower-strewn path...
...Ocean. Last December, for instance, Washington signed an agreement that ensures U.S. naval vessels continued access to Bahrein, now that the British have abandoned their base there. More recently, the Pentagon announced that there would be frequent patrols in the Indian Ocean by units of the Pacific-based Seventh Fleet...
...rare prosperity is no accident. It is one of the railroad;-Southern Railway and Southern Pacific are others-that have successfully begun to marry the computer to their operations. It uses the computer to help control and schedule its labor crew and its fleet of 120,000 freight cars, many of them running under such various names as the Nickel Plate and the Virginian (now merged into the N&W). Result: last year noncoal freight use was up 8%, and operating expenses were down fractionally despite a 10% increase in wages...