Word: naval
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...from Viet Nam. While that judgment may be too cynical, the fact is that only about 5,000 U.S. Government employees and Department of Defense contractors remain in Viet Nam; U.S. casualties in the past year totaled only one. However, one American was captured during Saigon's recent naval battle with the Chinese (see following story...
Chinese and Vietnamese naval ships exchanged fire for the next 48 hours. The Chinese flotilla was supported by MIG warplanes based on Hainan Island 200 miles to the north. At least one Vietnamese ship was sunk, and 122 Vietnamese were killed or captured. Although Saigon claims to have sunk two Chinese ships (Peking has refused comment), all Vietnamese were driven from the Paracels and Saigon Radio admitted defeat...
...Navy's first atomic-powered submarines and who was largely responsible for the building of the first civilian nuclear power plant; and Commander Eleonor A. Bednowicz, 43, a Navy nurse who met Rickover several months ago when he was a patient for a respiratory ailment at the Bethesda Naval Hospital; he for the second time, she for the first; on Jan. 19; near Chicago...
Died. Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 77, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1953-58; of cancer; in Brandy Station, Va. A banker and naval-reserve officer who became right-hand man to James V. Forrestal, a Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Strauss was appointed to the AEC in 1946. During a dispute in the scientific community, Strauss backed the development of the hydrogen bomb when it was opposed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the Abomb. Strauss prevailed, and in dramatic loyalty hearings in 1954, Oppenheimer lost his security clearance. When President Eisenhower nominated Strauss...
...Department officials argue that Egypt's investment of funds and manpower in reopening the canal might serve as a deterrent to future fighting around it. However, the Pentagon is somewhat less enthusiastic about the project. Military strategists point out that the reopening of the canal would give Soviet naval vessels much greater maneuverability than they now have in steaming between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean-the very waters in which they are already putting on big shows of new strength...