Word: jerseyed
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Worse confusion surrounded the extent and purpose of U.S. naval gunfire into Lebanon. During the battle for West Beirut two weeks ago, the New Jersey lobbed 290 16-in. shells, each weighing about a ton, into the hills behind the capital. Word spread that Weinberger had been "surprised and depressed" by the scale of the shelling and ordered it reduced. The Secretary of Defense was supposedly worried that so ferocious a bombardment would provoke hatred for the U.S. without changing the course of the battle and could possibly invite retaliation against the Marines hunkered down at the airport. Weinberger...
...along, Shultz neglected the advice he was getting about Lebanon from the Pentagon, which has never been happy about the Marine deployment or the New Jersey's heavy shelling, which Shultz had demanded. Furthermore, General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned for months at National Security Council meetings that the U.S. was relying too heavily on the precariously constituted Lebanese Army...
...Toad's. The surprising success of the Iowa State University basketball team (14-9 this very moment) and the equally surprising defeats of the University of Iowa (10-13) have been topic No. 1. There's been a little Olympic palaver, and when the battleship New Jersey opened up on Lebanon, that was a priority conversation...
...sting was part of Operation Exodus, an effort led by the Customs Service to stem the illicit export of defense-related technology. In this case, an undercover agent had posed as a defense-equipment broker and rented a New Jersey office as a front. The defendants, meeting with the agent in his office and unaware that hidden cameras were taping the session, offered to buy 100 transverse-wave-tube amplifiers, which are used in missile guidance systems, for $12,500 each. In addition, the suspects gave the agent a $1 billion shopping list of computers and other advanced electronic equipment...
Three months ago, the Customs Service got a tip from a defense industry firm in Los Angeles that Lin, a technical supervisor for AT&T Information Systems in New Jersey, had been asking about the availability of transverse-wave-tube amplifiers. Following that lead, an undercover customs agent telephoned Lin and set the sting in motion. The person who agreed to provide the money was Zheng, who is believed to be a citizen of China...