Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five days last week, Latin America's biggest and most advanced nation hung perilously on the brink of a civil war that no one wanted. In the name of democracy, one Brazilian army was ordered to attack another, which was determined to defend the constitution. A naval task force from the north steamed toward the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and air force fighters dived low over bristling antiaircraft guns in the southern state capital of Porto Alegre. At the end of a confused and passionate week, the longing of Brazilians for stability seemed to give promise...
...plain that unless U.S. air power was brought forward, the men on the beach were doomed. He asked that Boxer's planes be brought into the battle. Rusk still would not have this. Several others were also opposed, including the President's personal staffers. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke vouched for the worth of Bissell's proposition. The outcome of the meeting was a singular compromise. Jets from Boxer would provide cover next morning for exactly one hour, long enough for the ships to run into the shore and start unloading and for the remaining...
...abortive, U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He really ought to thank the U.S., said Che, because it gave Castro the victory he needed to achieve world prestige. Answered Goodwin: It was too bad Castro had not followed it up by an attack on the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. Che replied that under no circumstances would Cuba attack...
France has played the outlaw in Tunisia, and should be treated accordingly until she makes amends, by paying reparation and by commencing the orderly abandonment of the Bizerte naval base...
Running silent temporarily was Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 61, who after forgoing most of his leaves for the past decade, wound up in Bethesda, Md., Naval Hospital with a mild heart attack. Said the Navy, which in February extended Rickover's service two years beyond the normal retirement age: "He is sitting up, and his condition is considered excellent...