Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even during the cruises, mail and radio reports flow out to the yacht. Last week, heading slowly back to Estoril from a trip through the Mediterranean, he paused briefly off Gibraltar to confer with two leaders of his council. He also stopped at Cartagena as guest of the local naval commander...
...uneasy peace settled over Venezuela after a week in which warring wings of the armed forces engaged in some of the bitterest fighting in Venezuela's modern history. Residents of Puerto Cabello, a city of 80,000 lying beside the nation's largest naval base 75 miles west of the Caracas capital, buried their dead and started to clean up their shell-pocked city. Official casualty figures for the military were 47 dead, 89 wounded. But unofficial estimates put the toll, including civilians, at more than...
Marines & Guerrillas. Last week's rebellion, the second in a month, broke out in the marine corps. Given a little more luck, Betancourt might have put it down with a minimum of fighting. Striking before dawn, three malcontent pro-Castro officers imprisoned the naval base's commanders and started broadcasting a call to rebellion. Their appeal was ignored. Within hours loyal navy units had won back the base and arrested the rebel officers and their followers. But the rebels were in control just long enough to dispatch a force of 700 marines to occupy the city of Puerto...
...former Naval officer, Pyne served for eight years as assistant to the University's administrative vice-President and for one year as assistant bursar before becoming bursar in 1956. Previously, he was deputy administrative secretary of the Research and Development board in Washington...
Died. Vice Admiral Patrick Neison Lynch Bellinger, U.S.N., 76, a South Carolina-bred early-bird naval aviator who helped test the seaplane's long-range military capacity by flying one of the three NC flying boats in their transatlantic crossing, led during World War II the Atlantic Fleet Air Arm that helped thwart the U-boat menace; of a heart attack; in Clifton Forge...