Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spurred on by the brilliant early-season swimming of freshman David Lundberg, Harvard sank the Naval Academy Mid-shipmen, 72-41, at Blodgett Pool Saturday to run its dual meet record...
Shortly after issuing the statement, Carter ordered the naval reinforcements to the Persian Gulf area from the Pacific. The ships should get there this week. The two flattops that will be on the scene carry at least 125 jet fighters and bombers...
...crisis ends badly and any of the hostages are harmed, however, the U.S. will face a far more serious problem. Though the Administration has ruled out military intervention during the current impasse (there were naval exercises in the Persian Gulf last week, however), it might change its mind in the event of American casualties at the embassy. The Pentagon has advised that air raids, launched from carriers, could put the Iranian oilfields out of action for six months with a minimum of civilian injuries, but there has been no suggestion from any quarter that this would be a good course...
...natural, if the Americans continued to be held hostage, for Washington to dispatch commandos to rescue them? TIME put this question to nearly two dozen experts in and out of Government. Their near unanimous negative conclusion was summed up by Elmo Zumwalt Jr., the former Chief of Naval Operations: "I think it's pretty much out of the question." Added Robert Cushman Jr., the retired Marine Corps Commandant: "You could kill a lot of Iranians, but you wouldn't save the Americans...
...time predinner cocktails are served, the mood is cheerier. "We were marvelous amateurs," sighs Margaret Sherman, a Norwalk, Conn., housewife who served in a counterintelligence unit in London and Paris. Donovan ignored the advice of the creator of James Bond, Author Ian Fleming, who as a British naval intelligence officer in 1941 described the ideal spy as middleaged, sober, discreet and experienced. Instead, Wild Bill sought out impatient young people who did not mind being bold or even "calculatingly reckless...