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Word: hassayampa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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...congressional subcommittee is currently investigating the Kitty Hawk riot, along with racial outbreaks on the carrier Constellation and the oiler Hassayampa, to determine whether or not such problems stem from a lack of discipline in the Navy. Meanwhile, the manner in which the Kitty Hawk conducts its courts-martial will also be watched carefully. A biracial Pentagon task-force report on military justice, released last week by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, charged that there was a definite pattern of discrimination against blacks in the meting out of punishment. The report gave substance to black sailors' claims that recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Storm Warnings | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...Viet Nam, became the stage for a wild slugfest in which unhappy blacks vented their spleen on white seamen. Three of the 46 who were injured (40 white, six black) had to be evacuated by helicopter. A few days later a similar scene was played out on the oiler Hassayampa in Subic Bay in the Philippines; four whites were injured and eleven blacks were put off the ship in order to stand trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED SERVICES: Keelhauling the United States Navy | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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