Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanish group only 20 miles off the coast of Yemen. (Yemen claims sovereignty over Great Hanish, but the other ten islands in the group are officially unowned.) The Israeli commandos speak fluent Arabic, wear no uniforms and fly no flags. They are rotated every three months by naval units that put in under cover of night...
Lisa moved on to her next job: clerical work at MIT's notorious I-labs, home of MIRU and other military research projects. Old friends at MIT knew of Lisa's radical activities and so Naval intelligence and FBI men at the I-labs were especially concerned about her. While working at the I-labs. Lisa took part in the 1969 November Action, an antiwar demonstration at MIT. She received a slashed eye, cracked spine and all the other radical medals of honor for her activities. After the November Action, Lisa was carefully "watched". "It was like a siege...
...three and their families were driven to Portsmouth Naval Hospital for private reunions, complete with champagne, that lasted nearly until dawn. Mulligan, gone for more than six years, called photographers to take pictures of him with his six sons, some of them sporting long hair. Later, his wife reported: "His biggest shock is the way society as a whole has changed. The mood of the country has changed. Also the Catholic Church. It's like beginning to live all over again." Mrs. Galanti said that her husband wanted to hear about the moon shots, about President Nixon...
...months in office, the President had rarely been more visible or voluble. After a weekend in Florida ("I was happy to bring the boys home," he said during a visit to the Mayport Naval Station), Nixon planned a meeting with AFL-CIO President George Meany, then an address to the South Carolina state legislature. In his moment of triumph, Nixon seemed less calculating, more casual than usual. The relaxed mood appeared to be catching. Finishing her dinner at Trader Vic's, Pat Nixon lit up her first cigarette in public since her husband took office. To Washington observers...
Kissing is nothing new to the Navy, explained Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations. He told the American Bar Association convention that after he was photographed kissing an admiral-Alene Duerk, the first woman to reach that rank-he received a mock critical letter from a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Zumwalt's reply: "You should have recalled that nobody reaches the place I'm at without kissing a lot of admirals...