Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodia. The President merely promised, in a later statement, to do "whatever possible to support an independent, peaceful, neutral and unified Cambodia." At the same time, advised that there was no alternative, Ford, "with a heavy heart," ordered Americans to be helicoptered out of Phnom-Penh by a U.S. naval force that had been on station in the Gulf of Siam for more than a month against such an eventuality...
...Yardling tennis squad opened its season in the right court, gaining two easy wins this week. The team cruised past the Naval Academy Prep school winning 8-1. And yesterday the squad handed Choate a similar 8-1 defeat, powered by number one singles player ART SHERER'S 6-3, 6-3 victory...
...lacking, all agreements for collective security guarantee could prove only meaningless." But in Malaysia, government officials seemed unworried about future security, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew insisted calmly: "I don't believe in the domino theory." Philippine leaders felt confident that the U.S. would intervene with naval forces in the unlikely event that Communists ever invaded across the South China...
Breathing Space. At the same time as he announced that the canal would be reopened-in fact, Egyptian naval vessels have been sailing through the Suez for several weeks-Sadat agreed to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Sinai at least until July, a shorter extension than Washington had hoped for, but enough to give U.S. diplomats a little breathing space. Among other things, Sadat's maneuver 1) put pressure on the Syrians to renew their own U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights, which expires May 30; 2) strengthened his support in Western Europe...
...Mekong River. Pushing forward inexorably, the insurgents lowered the tubes of their artillery pieces and sent shell after shell screaming through the city on flat trajectories. Hundreds of civilians were killed or wounded every day, and many bodies were left to decompose in the streets. The attacks destroyed a naval ammunition dump, a fuel depot and a floating naval base. Helicopters to Phnom-Penh were the only means of escape; they were reserved for wounded soldiers and wealthy Cambodians who could afford the price of a ticket...