Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Communist aggression, we'll support you. We don't feel that we in the legislative branch in the minority party should determine strategy or tactics. I have many questions as to the need to expand our ground force commitments, especially when we have not used our air and naval superiority as adequately as I think we should. But the over-all position of strength has been good...
Then, last Wednesday, a Naval ROTC table appeared in the Student Union. The Union is nominally under the control of the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), yet this group had not granted ROTC permission to set up the table. Moreover, the administration's rules forbade all such tables in the Union, and students were quick to insist that if ROTC could set one up, so could anyone else...
...three acts unbecoming an officer: 1) allowing Jannie to reside "openly and notoriously" in his official quarters; 2) letting her use a U.S. Government vehicle; and 3) illegally importing 250 yards of black cloth. Kuntze was. handed a reprimand and reduced in seniority by 100 numbers-thus ending his naval career; he in turn announced his intention to retire by year...
...target for Republican criticism in the next Congress. Just as clearly, the Navy's delicate handling of the case showed its reluctance to implicate any highly placed Vietnamese officials who might have a more lucrative interest in logistics. As for Jannie Suen, Captain Kuntze's original sin, naval intelligence solemnly reported that she had disappeared without trace...
Then, after World War II when American - not British - naval strength saved Australia from the threat of Japanese invasion, Aussies slowly began to come up from down under. In 1939, Canberra could boast only one "overseas" diplomatic mission; today, it has more than 50 - almost a third of them located in Asia...