Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pending revision of general agreements." For good measure, Mintoff also declared NATO's Mediterranean commander, Italian Admiral Gino Birindelli, persona non grata. Birindelli, an outspoken right-winger who kept his NATO headquarters on Malta, had accused Mintoff of planning to let the Russians use the island as a naval base...
...pondering an Israeli request for additional military equipment. Israel is convinced that Washington is using such aid as both carrot and stick to force it into unwanted compromises. The Israelis told Helms that since the Soviets are moving inexorably southward toward East Africa and the Indian Ocean, establishing a naval presence and setting up ports of call and repair facilities, friendly nations such as Israel ought to be included in Western defense planning. On that basis, the Israelis argue, arms shipments ought to be determined according to strategic priorities, and not be subject to the more local pressures...
...When one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote a note to the others suggesting less top-secret classification of papers, his note was stamped top secret. Even in the Defense Department, however, there are limits. After someone placed a secret marking on a few newspaper clippings dealing with naval matters, an embarrassed Defense Department issued an order (yes, unclassified) directing personnel to leave newspapers in the public domain...
...responses in recent months. Two 240-ton patrol gunboats superpowered by jet engines have been transferred from Viet Nam as an experiment. The gunboats move so swiftly (top speed: 40 knots) that their crews must be strapped into their stations. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who is Chief of Naval Operations, has dubbed them "triple trailers" because they are assigned to lurk behind the Soviet vessels that trail U.S. ships...
...scandalous that churchmen are so concerned about abortion and yet have nothing to say about the destruction of human life in Laos." In March, at Newport, R.I., he and 200 others protested the war in Southeast Asia when President Nixon spoke at David Eisenhower's graduation from the Naval Officer Candidate School. The final blow, said Kelly, was the April meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Detroit (TIME, May 10), where conservatives dominated the deliberations...