Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse urged the maritime nations to test the Egyptian blockade by sending ships into the gulf "with their flags flying." Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who knows where the votes come from in New York, proposed that the U.N. send a naval patrol into the gulf. If the U.N. failed to act, he said, the U.S. should step in with other interested nations. Such a seaborne U.N. patrol, he explained, "does not raise many of the same problems as stationing ground troops within the territory of any country." In the House, 96 Representatives...
...itself began on the eve of Ho Chi Minh's 77th birthday. Dawn broke over a formidable invasion fleet steaming slowly off the coast. Two cruisers and five destroyers turned broadside to begin the softening-up bombardment of the shore line in the heaviest concentration of naval gunfire since the Korean War, while the amphibious assault boats swarmed in. Waves of troop-packed helicopters rose from the deck of the carrier Okinawa. The amphibious troops and their tanks, tractors and guns came ashore, meeting with little resistance. For the heliborne assault forces, it was another story...
...warships would sight a new class of Russian submarine that has begun operating out of Vladivostok. Washington issued tough-worded public protests but tried hard to play the incident down. The Soviet destroyers withdrew, at least for the present, to the respectable distance from which they usually view U.S. naval maneuvers...
...explosive spot, there were bothersome new signs of unrest. Red China is claiming that Mao-think is inspiring the Dominican masses to revolt. More realistically, President Joaquin Balaguer puts the blame on Castro. After a number of shootings and bombings in Santo Domingo, Balaguer last week ordered army and naval units into the city to hold down violence, went on the radio to warn that hundreds of Communists are trying to foment a revolution to overthrow his ten-month-old regime and to topple the country into another civil...
...bridled at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's 1961 decision to build a single all-purpose TFX, as it was then called, for both services. When General Dynamics Corp.'s design got the nod over Boeing's, the bickering grew louder-and helped ease the Chief of Naval Operations out of his job. Congress, too, filled the air with investigations over what critics called "the flying Edsel." So cloudy were the F-111's skies that even last year General Dynamics President Roger Lewis could not guess how big the buy might...