Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invited to hit targets previously off limits around Hanoi and Haiphong. From Guam and Thailand they came, wave after wave of green-and-brown aerial dreadnoughts. About 100 B-52s, flying in "cells" of three, were being used round the clock, supplemented by F-4 Phantoms, F-111s, and naval fighter-bombers from aircraft carriers. The missions reminded aviators of the last months of World War II in Europe, when bombers prowled the sky striking at "targets of opportunity," which meant everything...
...Admiral Zumwalt says this is not a permissive Navy. He also publicly puts the blast on other senior admirals for not being nice enough to the malcontents. That rattling noise you just heard was John Paul Jones turning over in his crypt at the Naval Academy...
...definition of international law of the sea is needed if the U.S. is to avoid major crises and protect its essential nautical interests, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations, said last night...
...first assignment was guard duty at the Arlington Hotel, a naval office building in a populated area on the outskirts of Saigon. If anyone stopped in front of the building he was ordered to blow his whistle and shoot unless they moved away immediately. On his third night in Vietnam a woman walked past his guard post. She did not move away after he blew his whistle; he shot and killed her, South Vietnam identification papers were removed from her body, and she entered the official body statistics as an unidentified member of the Viet Cong. This was the first...
Franco's isolation ended after the Berlin blockade persuaded the U.S. that Spain was essential for the defense of Western Europe. In 1953 John Foster Dulles drew up a pact providing $85 million in economic aid and $141 million in military aid in exchange for U.S. air and naval bases in Spain. It was the high point of Franco's long career. "The West needs us in the fight against Communism," he boasted to a Falange meeting in Madrid...