Word: naval
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...best response. Less than a week after the invasion began, he ordered the Washington Special Action Group?representatives of the CIA and the State and Defense departments, chaired by National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger ?to study the feasibility of bombing Hanoi and Haiphong and of a naval blockade of North Vietnamese ports. The purely military answer was clear enough: both could be done, and both would be useful...
This weekend the Crimson will be spreading themselves thin as they compete in three major events. Their emphasis will be on the Kennedy Cup at the Naval Academy where George Putnam will skipper the Crimson's eight-man yawl team. But the Ivy League championships and the Fries Trophy regatta, a major New England event, are also this weekend...
...nearby Uruguay, meanwhile, 15 members of the notorious Tupamaros guerrilla organization escaped from Montevideo's Punta Carretas prison through a recently built tunnel. Two days later, Tupamaros staged six fatal ambushes around Montevideo, killing two policemen, a naval officer, and a former Cabinet under secretary. Eight Tupamaros, including two of the prison escapees, also lost their lives. The outbreak of violence caused President, Juan María Bordaberry to ask the Uruguayan Congress to suspend individual rights and to declare a "state of internal war." At week's end, Congress approved his requested measures, but only...
...Iraq, which may be followed shortly by another with Syria, is a departure from the former Soviet practice of dealing with the Arab states primarily through Cairo. It also gives the Russians a desired window on the Persian Gulf. Kosygin had scarcely taken off for home when a Soviet naval flotilla dropped anchor in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on a goodwill visit...
Died. Piero Calamai, 75, captain of the Andrea Doria when, on July 25, 1956, the Italian liner collided with the Stockholm off the Nantucket coast and sank; in Genoa, Italy. Though a naval veteran of 39 years and both World Wars, Calamai retired to the hills of Liguria following the inquiry into the collision and never ventured to sea again...