Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft carrier Hor net, accompanied by two submarines and some eleven U.S. and Japanese destroyers, steamed into the Sea of Japan on maneuvers (Operation Crossed T), they knew that they would find the Russians waiting. Moscow likes to consider the Sea of Japan just a large bay of its naval base at Vladivostok. This time the Russians did not just look on. The Russian destroyer Besslednyi began cutting in between the maneuvering vessels, ignoring urgent warning signals to stay clear. In a game of "chicken" on the sea, it twice came to within 50 ft. of two U.S. destroyers dispatched...
...Catholics, Chinese and Negroes. The U.S. was founded by fervent believers in free expression-who almost immediately ignored their own First Amendment. In 1798, Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts empowering the Federalists to ruthlessly prosecute Republican editors for, among other things, criticizing the Government's undeclared naval war with France. Lincoln did not even consult Congress in 1861, when he suspended the right of habeas corpus for anyone his Government deemed disloyal. During World War I's anti-German hysteria, the 1918 Sedition Act prescribed 20 years' imprisonment for war dissenters. Superpatriots banned the teaching...
...every cockpit in Southeast Asia, the same cannot be said throughout the rest of the world. Marine Corps Commandant Wallace Greene last month told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee that his service is now 851 aviators short and by 1968 will be 1,021 pilots in the hole; Chief of Naval Operations David McDonald admits to "urgent pilot needs"; Air Force Chief of Staff J. P. McConnell worries about the "down ward trend" in pilot retention. The Army, whose 3,800 helicopter pilots in Viet Nam have virtually revolutionized the art of warfare, has more than tripled its output of chopper...
Stanford topped nine sailing powers in the four races sailed in 44-foot yawls supplied by the host Naval Academy...
...moved out. Left behind is some $750 million worth of military infrastructure, which constitutes a windfall for France. It includes such unmovable assets as 46 new air fields, 17 Polaris depots, 1,200 miles of pipeline, 13 air navigational aid stations, ten underground cable and radio systems, nine naval base installations and three underground war headquarters. There were no tears or emotion as SHAPE moved out last week-except, possibly, among the military's cost accounting experts...