Word: naval
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...combat planes available to NATO'S southern command (Greece, Turkey, Italy and the U.S.); and the Greek navy's seven submarines and 13 destroyers and destroyer escorts that helped the U.S. Sixth Fleet in maintaining a balance in the eastern Mediterranean with the increasing Soviet naval presence. No longer will the movement of Greek troops be coordinated by NATO, nor will they participate in joint maneuvers and training exercises. It is even possible that Greece will withdraw from the alliance's computer-operated, early-warning radar system, which runs from the Arctic Circle in Norway to Asia...
...education," says Navy Captain Ronald A. Campbell, who is in charge of recruiting and counseling potential midshipmen. As an added attraction, Annapolis offers a majors program in which midshipmen can earn bachelor's degrees in nonnaval fields as well as traditional areas such as electrical and mechanical engineering, naval architecture and ocean engineering. West Point, which sends more than 70% of its graduates on to complete graduate school, does not offer a majors program, but it has liberalized its electives. Cadets in the social-studies department, for example, can take political philosophy, microeconomics and political and cultural anthropology. During...
Chief Petty Officer Gary Fullerton, who works in the Cambridge naval recruiting office, said yesterday, "We are willing to work with the school and the students. We don't intend to misinform, and we're more than happy to stand corrected." Fullerton said the resolution "is as fair an agreement as could...
When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...
Vice President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty are definitely planning to move. But for the time being they will simply exchange their four-bedroom house in Alexandria, Va., for a larger Victorian estate on the grounds of Washington's Naval Observatory, which has been appropriated by Congress as the vice-presidential residence. Jerry Ford, however, has a grouse: nice as the place is, it has no pool. Last week the Fords enjoyed a rare quiet day round their old pool at the house in Alexandria. Betty does not want her husband to be President, but she says...