Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week before Parravano's arrest, the Boston Police refused to arrest him at a demonstration at the Boston Naval Recruiting Station on Tremont St. "The captain said that they don't arrest blind people:" he said, "but the State Police at Hansoom didn't discriminate...
...bizarre attempts at sabotage are the latest in a series of attacks on Air Force bases in the U.S. that have authorities puzzled and worried. Saboteurs first struck last May when they cut the electrical conduits and hydraulic lines of three C-130 Lockheed Hercules transports at Willow Grove Naval Air Station, Pa. It took 3,000 man-hours to repair the aircraft at a cost...
...from Southern Illinois University. He did indeed have a story to tell. A high school dropout from Dallas, he joined the Navy, tried to become a pilot but was disqualified for color blindness. That made him so "disenchanted with Navy life," as he put it, that he robbed a naval-station bank of $125,000 and ended with a ten-year prison term...
...living in Uganda. He also charged that Britain was planning a "land, sea and air invasion" of Uganda. When it was pointed out that landlocked Uganda is miles from any ocean, Amin belittled British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home for betraying his "ignorance about Africa" by plotting a naval attack in the first place. He greeted the newly arrived Canadian High Commissioner in Kampala, William Olivier, by asking him when Canada intended to throw out the Queen and install a Canadian as head of state. Replied a startled Olivier: "I am not a prophet...
...Sure, he's taken out troops. But we've increased the amount of air power, we've increased the amount of naval power, we've increased the amount of fire power. And I think the President did not keep his word...