Word: naval
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...Premier since unification. He was only a fledgling lawyer-journalist when he became a wartime protege of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great postwar Premier. De Gasperi was a Vatican librarian hiding from the Fascists when Andreotti wandered in one day in 1941 to begin research on papal naval history.* After the war Andreotti became a member of the first Constituent Assembly and also secretary of De Gasperi's Cabinet...
...resolve to win the release of the prisoners. It was a curious inconsistency in McGovern's war position, an apparent apostasy from his vows of complete withdrawal. The protesters angrily called him on it, and McGovern explained that he would close U.S. bases in Thailand and remove all U.S. naval forces from waters adjacent to Southeast Asia once the prisoners were "free and those listed as missing were accounted for." When they went on to demand that he sign an S.D.S. proposal calling for life imprisonment of police officers who kill members of minority groups, McGovern said evenly...
SAIGON--Nearly 100 U.S. B-52 bombers and a naval task force of more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers blasted North Vietnamese positions on both sides of the demilitarized zone Monday in some of the heaviest bombardments...
...South Vietnamese last week launched their first serious counteroffensive since Communist troops rolled into northern Quang Tri province three months ago. Some 5,000 marines and airborne troops-preceded by the heaviest naval and air bombardment of the war-were dispatched to Quang Tri province; some, in fact, were helilifted to within four miles of Quang Tri city. The operation's immediate aim was to secure two districts as bases for future thrusts into the rest of the Communist-held territory...
...mutual concern," was the answer. "You can't do that," said the President, worried that the man's constituency would think he had been getting too chummy with the Establishment. "You've got to have demanded action on something," coached L.B.J. "What about Annapolis? The Naval Academy's only got a handful of Negro midshipmen. You brought that to my attention, and I said I would see to it that the Navy changed and got some more black faces in the officer corps. I'll do it right...