Word: naval
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Reagan managed at a mini-press conference last week to sound intimidating even when denying that the naval fleet was preparing for a blockade of Nicaragua. Given an easy opportunity to say he would not favor a blockade, he instead said, "I would hope that eventuality would not arise." Reagan minced no words at the session with reporters when asked about the Sandinista government now ruling Nicaragua. When the regime consolidated power, he said, "the present group wanted Communist totalitarianism." Could a diplomatic settlement be reached with them? "I think it would be extremely difficult," he said, "because I think...
...tuition and expense money on a spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory, was invited back to Harvard, was expelled for a second time, served in the Navy during World War I and went on to study science at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. During the 1920s he spent five years in an alcoholic depression following the death of a four-year-old daughter. One night in 1927, while standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, he found himself redeemed from his thoughts of self-destruction by a private vision...
...Maracaibo began to tow the Cloud to Turiamo Naval Base, nine Venezuelan infantes, or marines, parachuted onto the deck of the mystery ship. They learned from the engine-room log that the Cloud had picked up its hot cargo in Yugoslavia in March. The last stop, probably only a few hours before the fire, had been Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, 155 miles off the northwest coast of Africa. Venezuelan Defense Ministry officials believe that the Cloud's three British and nine Ghanaian sailors were picked up by a Panamanian liner and taken to Senegal. The Cloud then...
...frequent meetings in the old Imperial Palace with Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Fomichenko. Ethiopia buys virtually all its oil from the Soviet Union, and since 1977 the Soviets have supplied the country with arms and military hardware worth $2 billion. In return, the Soviet Union has a drydock and other naval facilities on the Ethiopian-controlled Dahlak Islands...
Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.: "We have had a true sea change of historic proportions in our nation. In a few short years the self-doubt, the post-Viet Nam syndrome of negativism, of antimilitarism, of loss of faith, have been transformed. Traditional American values are no longer held up to ridicule. But more important, America has turned once again to its military to set standards of integrity and excellence and to restore American security and confidence in a very threatening world...