Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current action." Kissinger asked the CIA to prepare a report on "who did what to whom and when." The military representatives stuck their necks out when asked how long it would take the Indian army to force a Pakistani surrender in the East. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations, estimated one or two weeks; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland said as many as three. It took twelve days...
...demand was a sharp escalation in a bizarre campaign that Mintoff has been waging to gouge more money from Britain and other NATO countries that use Malta's superb naval and air facilities. With government indebtedness expected to reach a staggering $104 million by next spring, Malta is undeniably short of cash. Prime Minister Edward Heath offered to increase Britain's annual payments from $14 million to a generous $24 million, but Mintoff is holding out for $47 million...
...Barrow ties its residents to the city. The Prudhoe Bay oil strike, 200 miles to the east, has so far meant only about two dozen jobs in Barrow. The Government remains the biggest local employer; there is a branch of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for example, and a Naval Arctic Research Lab just outside town...
...look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow residents usually dump solid wastes -encased in the ubiquitous 55-gal. drums-near the Naval Lab. In the summer, however, the stench of open "honeybuckets" is almost unbearable...
...Cuban naval offensive has been directed at solely Babun-owned ships. But Radio Havana warned that Cuban gunboats would have no compunction whatsoever about seizing any vessel "under any flag or camouflage" that they believed had been engaged in "counterrevolutionary activities...