Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Wells, Singapore representative of Ray Geophysical Company, which did recent seismic exploration off the coast of Vietnam, said, "The North Vietnamese don't have much naval power. It is a calculated risk but not much worse than some in the Middle East these days...
During rebel attacks on Chittagong, Pakistani naval vessels shelled the port, setting fire to harbor installations. At Jessore, in the southwest, angry Bengalis were said to have hacked alleged government spies to death with staves and spears. Journalists at the Petrapole checkpoint on the Indian border found five bodies and a human head near the frontier post-the remains, apparently, of a group of West Pakistanis who had tried to escape. At week's end there were reports that East Bengali rebels were maintaining a precarious hold on Jessore and perhaps Chittagong. But in Dacca and most other cities...
Leave Her Alone. Nixon also pursued the independent Mrs. Smith, who had opposed the plane earlier but had voted for it this year in committee. He sent her a "Dear Margaret" letter announcing that he was "pleased" to rescind an order by the Johnson Administration closing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the Maine-New Hampshire border. With cool class, Mrs. Smith showed the letter to newsmen, and blandly said that she was "very much gratified" by the President's decision...
...impeccable aristocratic credentials. He is scion of a 600-year-old noble Siena family that has produced a Pope (Paul V), and a flock of cardinals. He, wears Italy's Gold Medal for Military Valor for leading World War II assaults on Gibraltar and Alexandria harbors as a naval commander...
Harvard's chamber was built by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the late 1940's in connection with research by Frederick V. Hunt, then a professor of Physics. The ONR has supported numerous research projects at American universities since World War II. Hunt has now retired from Harvard and no longer needs the anechoic chamber...