Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...m.p.h. onto the flight deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets along the way. Finally it rammed broadside into a "six pack" of fueled F-14 Tomcat fighters. "There was just one big boom," recalled Naval Aviation Technician Dale Stewart, 19. "It all happened so fast. All you could see was flying pieces of aircraft." Said Petty Officer Richard Elkin: "There were screams of pain everywhere...
...lack some evidence in their search for explanations: hours after the accident, the EA-6B and the two unsalvageable F-14s were pushed overboard. Captain John Batzler, the Nimitz's commanding officer, was authorized to jettison the three irreparable aircraft by Vice Admiral George E.R. Kinnear, Commander of Naval Air Forces Atlantic, who flew to the Nimitz hours after the crash. The wrecked fighters still carried their loads of unexploded missiles and ammunition, which posed a danger to ship and crew...
...that Israel was putting no time limit on Habib's diplomatic efforts, there were fears that Israel might take advantage of his absence to attack the contro versial missiles. Instead, just 24 hours after Habib left, Israeli warplanes launched bombing forays against Palestinian positions, followed up with a naval raid that shelled the coast near Damur, south of Beirut, and landed commandos who ambushed guerrilla vehicles. The air strikes, the first in a month, hit Palestinian strongholds and refugee camps in and around the towns of Damur and nearby Naameh. According to Lebanese estimates, some 25 people were killed...
...Security Treaty, Washington agreed not to "introduce" nuclear weapons into Japan. Two weeks ago, however, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that the two countries have ever since been living a convenient lie. In an interview with Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, Reischauer asserted that U.S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports-with Tokyo's tacit approval...
...revelations, since buttressed by other former U.S. and Japanese diplomats, exploded across Japan. Last week Socialist Leader Ichio Asukata declared that the government of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki "deserves 10,000 deaths" for the nuclear deceit. Leftist and labor organizations rallied to protest port calls by U.S. naval vessels and demanded on-site inspections of all U.S. bases in Japan...