Word: naval
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...Cuba. He also rejected a compromise proposal that the job be done by the International Red Cross. And he ticked off five conditions that he said must be met before he would consider any sort of agreement 1) the U.S. must move out of the Guantánamo naval base, 2) end its economic blockade, 3) quit aiding "subversive activities," 4) abandon "pirate attacks," and 5) stop the "violation" of Cuba's air and sea space...
Shipped or Stored? After U Thant returned to New York, the U.S. resumed its naval blockade of Cuba. Fresh from a two-day respite in Puerto Rico, where he engaged in his favorite sport of skin-diving, Vice Admiral Alfred G. Ward went back to sea to command Task Force 136. Once again, low-flying jet reconnaissance planes screeched over Cuba to photograph the state of the Soviet nuclear missiles...
...Cuba. naval base, held by the U.S. under a perpetual lease, negotiated in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934. It grants the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control." In the nuclear age, Guantánamo no longer has any great strategic value, but with its excellent anchorage it is a valued warm-water training base- and as long as Castro controls Cuba, the base will have a special value as a free world outpost, a reminder of the U.S.'s proximity and power...
...make political capital of our situation in Cuba or in Berlin." Retorted Carroll's G.O.P. opponent, Republican Peter Dominick: "I strongly supported prohibiting the granting of foreign aid to Cuba in both the 1961 and 1962 foreign aid acts. I have publicly urged the creation of a naval blockade...
...birds. My father was a very farseeing man." Godfrey Cabot was bitten by the flying bug shortly after the Wright brothers lifted off a hill at Kitty Hawk. After the outbreak of World War I, Cabot pestered Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels into letting him try for the Naval Air service. "I wanted to swat the Germans," he explained. Cabot was 54, but he passed his test and flew antisubmarine patrols around Boston Harbor in a seaplane hunting eagerly for Germans he could swat. Still bedazzled by the promise of the air age, he experimented with a variety...