Word: naval
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...Libyan group called the Free Unionist Officers threatened a campaign of "physical liquidation" against Americans, including President Reagan. Then, in mid-August, came the attack by two Libyan SU-22 fighter planes against a pair of U.S. F-14s as they flew over the Gulf of Sidra during a naval exercise by the U.S. Sixth Fleet in disputed waters that Libya had long claimed as part of its territory. The U.S. planes downed the Libyan jets...
...Navy has so far resisted the request to change the name. The sub is not named after a sacred mystery of the faith but, the Navy says, the Texas city (pop. 332,000) where the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station is the largest employer. Besides, a World War II Navy ship was called Corpus Christi, and vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council...
Reagan Administration is merely out to ruin the country. In their recent statements, both Haig and Meese have ruled out unilateral U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua as an antidote to the flow of arms, but they have ruled out little else. Both officials, in fact, have said that a naval blockade of Nicaragua or other drastic measures could not be excluded as an eventual possibility...
Sandinista speeches also began to take on a decidedly paranoiac tinge, helped along, in part, by U.S. naval maneuvers last October off the nearby Honduran coast. When Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned that the country's enemies "will be hanging along the roads and highways" in the event of a U.S. invasion, COSEP leaders reacted. In an open letter, they charged that "the national economy shows no signs of recuperation, social peace has not been found, the country finds itself in spiraling debt, with no foreseeable end." The directorate thereupon threw four COSEP leaders in jail, along with...