Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sources close to the President indicated before the primary that the White House might be preparing for yet another reversal, this time concerning the long range naval shipbuilding program. Newspaper reports indicated the decision could well be determined by the results of the Texas primary, where Ronald Reagan had been winning over hawkish Texas conservatives with his talk of Soviet military superiority. Although administration officials had earlier indicated that the decision would have to await preparation of the next budget, the President announced expansion of the program on May 4--three days after losing in Texas...
...treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda for symptoms of a urinary-tract infection turned up a low-grade malignancy that the doctors decided clearly required surgery...
...18th century, the Premier warned that in Peter the Great's purported "testament" Russia had already laid claim to South Asia. Hua declared that war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is inevitable -a contention Schlesinger disputed. The Premier added that the U.S. must maintain its naval strength in the Pacific against a possible Soviet attack...
Carter's childhood dream of attending the Naval Academy was disturbed by his fear that he might not be able to pass the physical, because of the malocclusion of his teeth and his slight case of flat feet. Typically, and no doubt fruitlessly, he rolled his fallen arches over Coke bottles for some time before his first physical in hope of correcting nature's error. A Congressman got him his appointment to the academy...
...opening of the Dutch Parliament. Just a month earlier Bernhard had ceased all official duties and resigned his post as armed forces Inspector General after a government investigation uncovered "extremely imprudent" links between the prince and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Despite the gray civvies that replaced the favorite naval uniform he had relinquished...