Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy has been the nation's favorite means of flexing its muscles. A 1976 survey by the Brookings Institution found that in the 215 cases since World War II in which military force was used for political goals, the Navy was deployed 177 times. A visit by the battleship Missouri to Istanbul in 1946 countered mounting Soviet pressures on Turkey, for example, while in 1958 U.S. amphibious activity off Lebanon's coast bolstered a friendly government in Beirut. More recently, the rescue of the U.S. freighter Mayaguez in 1975 after its capture by Cambodian Communists demonstrated America's continuing interest...
...stake are the nation's security and its traditional control of the seas, claim Navy officials, both civilian and uniformed. They have been leaking secret memos and giving background briefings warning that the huge Soviet naval buildup of recent years requires a matching growth in U.S. seapower. These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning...
...cause. Construction of warships has fallen a year or more behind schedule, and relations between the service and its major suppliers have sunk to their lowest point in many decades. The Navy, in fact, has been slapped with claims demanding $2.7 billion in payment for cost overruns by the nation's major shipbuilders?General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, Tenneco's Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries...
Unrest is on the increase on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with terrorist incidents leading to arrests and crackdowns. But this, like the diplomatic pressure Israel is facing, only seems to polarize the nation further. At the Wailing Wall last week, the ardently nationalist Gush Emunim held a rally and declared the founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made...
...goal--to actually hold the site and stop construction--was not achieved, the action was universally seen as an enormous success. Almost overnight opposition to nuclear power became perhaps the most potent protest movement in the country, with at least 20 alliances, patterned after Clamshell, springing up across the nation...