Word: naval
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...reopened an old disagreement with the Pentagon over the proper U.S. role in El Salvador. Haig wants increased U.S. military aid to the government of José Napoleon Duarte, which is stalemated in its war against leftist insurgents. The Secretary indicated that he was considering military steps, perhaps including naval action, to halt the flow of arms to the rebels from Cuba and Nicaragua. In what several Administration officials call ''an inversion of roles," Weinberger and his Pentagon aides have opposed Haig's State Department on that question, arguing that U.S. military involvement in El Salvador would...
Wilson is a former covert operative for the CIA who helped organize the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by anti-Castro Cubans in 1961. He officially left the Government in 1976, when the naval intelligence branch for which he was working, known as Task Force 157, was being disbanded by Navy Rear Admiral Bobby Inman. Wilson tried to persuade Inman to save Task Force 157 by offering what Inman took to be a bribe; the admiral, offended, immediately decided to abolish the operation. In 1980 Wilson was indicted on charges of illegally shipping explosives to Libya. He has been...
...antiquated gray submarine was towed part of the way down the channel it had navigated on its own ten days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime...
After the raid, the British government claimed that it was clean. Said a spokesman for the naval yard that had ordered the machinery: "We were certainly not involved in this James Bond escapade. The motors were overdue, but we were not pressing the firm for delivery. We have no idea who did it." A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense added, "We didn't know anything like this was planned...
...held an investigation to learn why the submarine had invaded Swedish waters. Such an inquiry required the presence of Skipper Gushin, but he refused to leave his ship, even when entreated by two Soviet diplomats. The Swedes settled in for a possible siege, as Gushin awaited orders from his naval superiors. Although Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Yakovlev took what Swedish officials described as the "very unusual" step of apologizing for the incident, Foreign Minister Ola Ullsten later declared, "Of course that's not enough. We have to complete the interrogation...