Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Military Option. The thorniest problem of all is how the U.S. should use its military power. Tahtinen advocated a kind of presence at one remove: U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia and possibly other friendly nations to expand their own airfields and naval facilities. By doing that, he says, "you are making the Saudis feel we are not going to let them down." The implication, Tahtinen noted, would be that "we would be willing to utilize those facilities in time of crisis if invited to do so. At least that gives us a potential...
...boats could fill pages in Lloyd's Register of Ships. They range from Chinese junks to sleek power cruisers, from 30-ft. sailboats to converted trawlers. At Waldo Point, just north of San Francisco, Sandy White, 32, a businesswoman, lives aboard a 41-year-old, 62-ft. former naval ferry that she bought for $4,500 in 1972 and has since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove, bookshelves and a piano. At Seattle's Shilshole Bay Marina, John Polikowsky, 55, an art teacher, has spent six years...
...arms embargo, which had deeply embittered a longtime ally. The continued solidity and loyalty of this large democratic nation bordering on the Soviet Union is important to the West. Turkey provides NATO with airfields, supply and ammunition depots, communication and surveillance stations to monitor Soviet air and naval activities, missile and nuclear-weapons tests...
...Naval tactics will be in order at Blodgett Pool where Admiral Bernal will send his fleet of Crimson submariners and divebombers into action against the Blue Lubbers. Earlier Saturday morning, the Harvard women's varsity torpedoes will splish-splash the Elis by forcing them to take a bath...
...Stockdale was named president of the Naval War College, which sits on a wind swept point overlooking Narragansett Bay. Among his first acts was to draft Joseph Brennan, 68, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, to help him design and teach a course on military morality. "The twists and turns of the fortunes of war have a way of throwing operational skippers and others out into new decision-making territory where all previous bets are off," says Stockdale...