Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clark also stumbled when news of the naval and military maneuvers leaked out. On a rare visit to Capitol Hill, Clark sought to cool the fury by remarking that the maneuvers were no sudden action but had been planned since February. That only made Senators and Representatives angrier that they had not been consulted. The National Security Adviser also proved unresponsive to some obvious questions...
...need to think the strategy through themselves considerably more thoroughly than they have done to date. The decisions that are causing so much uproar have been taken largely in response to the pace of events, and they have led to major disagreements within the Government. The military and naval maneuvers, to take the most prominent example, have been justified by the Administration partly as a response to a reported increase in the number of Cuban military advisers and the quantity of arms from Soviet-bloc countries showing up in Nicaragua. But the significance?and the extent?of that reported buildup...
...Nations, has been widely regarded as the Administration's intellectual guru on Latin American policy. She has argued long, hard and convincingly within Administration councils that the loss of Central America to Communist revolutionary regimes would be a devastating blow to U.S. security interests. But Kirkpatrick learned about the naval maneuvers from a reporter's questions. She is believed to consider the timing of the military ventures as very poor...
...Ikl�, successfully argued for a show of U.S. force to give the Nicaraguans pause and reassure the Hondurans and Costa Ricans that the U.S. would not let them be overrun. To that end, the Pentagon revved up planning that had begun as early as last February for naval and military maneuvers. The Defense Department last spring had won approval in principle from all agencies involved in Central American policy that maneuvers should be conducted, but had not specified how big or how long they would...
...Japan decided in 1956 never to acquire nuclear weapons. Nakasone has reiterated that pledge, though he, like his predecessors, must fudge a bit. The government vowed that atomic weapons would never be "introduced" into the country, but it is widely assumed that the U.S. warships that visit the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka are equipped with nuclear arms. The two countries observe a sort of polite fiction: the U.S. does not consider that it is bringing the weapons permanently into the country, so it never informs the Japanese of their presence. Tokyo, in turn, never asks...