Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Could the war that has claimed half a million lives, devastated two countries and led to the largest U.S. naval buildup since World War II finally be over? Not quite. A day after Iran notified the U.N. of its decision, Iraq bombed an Iranian nuclear-power facility at the gulf city of Bushire. Three days later, Baghdad launched new attacks along the 730-mile border between the two countries in an obvious attempt to gain more leverage in cease-fire negotiations. In response, Tehran radio broadcast an appeal for able-bodied men to go to the front...
...time to use them. An emergency-support vessel, the Tharos, was permanently anchored nearby to help out in just such a catastrophe. It aimed its fire hoses at the Piper Alpha but was forced to turn away as the explosions continued. Twenty-eight ships, including a seven-unit NATO naval force led by the U.S. destroyer Hayler, quickly assembled to take part in a rescue mission, as did Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes and helicopters...
...knew it. The U.S. rules of engagement are not unreasonable, | considering the situation in the Persian Gulf, and the Aegis system apparently worked as it was supposed to. The tragedy seems to have resulted from a collision of random events (an airliner taking off at the moment a naval battle was beginning, for example) with inflexible technology in a pattern that could conceivably happen again. The Navy immediately began searching for ways to guard against that possibility, including the obvious step of feeding information about scheduled civilian air flights into military computers...
More than 200 subpoenas. As many as 100 defense contracts subject to cancellation. Tens of billions of dollars at stake. All last week, the revelations coming out of the FBI and Naval Investigative Service probe code- named Operation Ill Wind continued to mushroom into the biggest and most important Pentagon scandal ever...
What Lackner did have was even more valuable. In about 1971, while working for Northrop, he had met Stuart Berlin, then and now a Navy civil servant. They formed a close friendship that continued as Berlin rose to become a contracting official at the Naval Air Systems Command -- working on, among other things...