Word: naval
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PRESIDENT NIXON told the nation last week that he is taking steps to ensure "a real peace, not the peace of surrender" in Vietnam. He vowed to continue air and naval strikes directed at North Vietnam until the North Vietnamese halt what he termed "unprovoked aggression" against the South. And the logical extension of his statements is that despite the veil of continued U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam, the Administration is prepared to fight its undeclared war, if only with deadly mechanical support weapons, until a non-communist, pro-American government can stand on its own in Saigon or until...
...European colonial affairs could account for a situation in which the otherwise sophisticated leaders of the country's leading University employ, in all good faith, a line of defence that is as old as the British abolition controversy and as morally creaky as a restored slave ship in a naval museum. As early as the eighteenth century the more sophisticated defenders of West Indian slavery were arguing that although slavery was an evil and, as such, to be condemned (in much the same way that the President today condemns Portuguese colonialism) Englishmen should nonetheless maintain slavery and continue to invest...
Harvard's sailing team put its main emphasis on the Kennedy Cup, the national intercollegiate yawl championship at the Naval Academy, but the Crimson could only manage eighth place out of the 11-team field. Harvard did, however, manage to beat three West Coast entries, who had come East as favorites...
...speech to a select gathering of Texans at the south Texas ranch of Treasury Secretary John Connally, President Nixon said yesterday that "the South Vietnamese will be able to hold...provided the United States continues to furnish the air and naval support that we have been furnishing to stop this invasion...
Many of the scientific benefits from Apollo 16 are still in the offing. With a new, semiautomatic $2,000,000 electronic camera, developed by the Naval...