Word: naval
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Throughout the week, the Administration demonstrated the seriousness of its commitment to help solve the crisis in Lebanon. The number of U.S. naval vessels standing off the Lebanese coast reached twelve with the arrival from the Indian Ocean of a three-ship amphibious force. Aboard were 2,000 more Marines, who would be available for duty onshore if necessary. Those vessels, which include the nuclear-powered carrier Eisenhower, will be joined some time this week by the battleship New Jersey, whose 16-in. guns could flatten unfriendly artillery positions up to 23 miles inland...
Then, in a specific effort to improve both the security and the morale of U.S. troops on the ground in Lebanon, the Administration announced that the Marines had been authorized to call for air strikes and naval gunfire from the U.S. fleet, not only for themselves but also for the French, Italian and British contingents of the multinational peace-keeping force and, if necessary, for the beleaguered Lebanese Army...
...been hit by Druze or Syrian fire and made emergency landings in Cyprus. The pilots, to their credit, had been operating under difficult conditions, using a highway strip to the north of Beirut for takeoffs and landings. The pilot of the downed plane was rescued by a U.S. naval vessel...
...cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam up any innuendo. Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S. (CBS), a Jacuzzi-hot soap opera set on a naval base: "PAN FROM the clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion, at once ladylike and sensual. Now PAN ON OVER TO the bed and FIND Hilary and a young man locked...
...Marines' compound, they fired six 155-mm howitzer shells at a target in the hills. On Thursday, as the shelling continued, the Americans responded with artillery fire and with four shells from a 5-in. gun aboard the Bowen, a U.S. frigate stationed off the Lebanese coast. The naval fire was aimed at a Druze artillery base near the mountain village of Shimlan, to the southeast of the airport...