Word: naval
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...previously known. In fact, former Israeli officials now disclose that Israel's assistance to Lebanon's embattled Christians during the long civil war amounted to $30 million to $35 million in direct aid, and perhaps as much as $100 million all told, including the cost of a naval blockade and air patrols along the Lebanese coast...
...about 15 years, the Soviet Union trained and armed the 22,000-man Somali army and helped make it one of the best fighting forces in Africa; it also built a missile and naval base at the Somali port of Berbera, which is strategically located near the approaches to the Red Sea. But three years ago, following the overthrow of Haile Selassie, the Soviets began to concentrate on improving their relations with the new junta in Ethiopia-and thus began to alienate the Somalis. The Cubans, who used to back the Eritreans, followed the Russians to Addis Ababa, and today...
...other directors considered about 100 outsiders for the job of permanent chairman. But they eventually concluded that to bring in someone new would set Lockheed back while the outsider familiarized himself with the company. So the choice fell on Anderson, who knows Lockheed thoroughly. After serving as a naval officer during World War II and the Korean conflict, he joined the company in 1956 and worked his way up through several financial posts to vice chairman and chief financial officer. In that job, he was aware of some jiggery-pokery in Lockheed's foreign sales. But the board...
...their olive-drab flight suits, and they speak with studied confidence of their assignment. They are, after all, among the best trained pilots in the Marine Corps, and they would hardly betray anxiety over the risks of flying anything, much less a nifty little plane designed to revolutionize naval aviation. In the placid calm of the ready room of Marine Attack Squadron 231 at Cherry Point, N.C., Captain Cliff Dunn, 33, declares: "We're fairly convinced there's nothing wrong with the plane. We wouldn't fly it if we thought there was. Nobody I know...
...Naval Academy Prep...