Word: flynn
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...approved Executive Board slate consists of Chairman Evan J. Mandery '89, Vice Chairman Jeffrey A. Cooper '90, Services Committee Chairman Debbie J. Slotnick '90, Social Committee Chairman Ron S. Lee '90 and Academics Committee Chairman ToddC. Flynn '88. The sixth person on the slate isRobert Weissman '88-89, a political activist andcouncil member who has campaigned loudly for anopen meeting of the Corporation...
...Flynn and other Pentagon officials said they could not recall a similar incident of deliberate bumping during operations in the Black Sea. The Soviets strongly protested a similar deployment by the same two ships in March 1986, but did nothing at the time to physically interfere with their passage...
According to Cmdr. Richard Schiff, a Navy lawyer who appeared with Flynn, the Yorktown and Caron were operating off the Crimean peninsula in what the Navy calls its "assertion of rights" program--an effort to periodically steam through contested waters to emphasize freedom of navigation on the high seas...
...about 11 a.m. local time yesterday--or 3 a.m. EST--Flynn said the Soviets broadcast the following warning to the U.S. ships: "Soviet ships have orders to prevent violation of territorial waters. I am authorized to strike your ship with one of ours...
When neither the Caron or York-town changed course, a Krivak-class frigate moved up on the Yorktown and a Mirkaclass patrol vessel moved on the Caron, "grazing" the left sides of the each, Flynn said...