Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cries of alarm seemed justified. Sources close to the investigation, conducted jointly by the FBI and the Naval Investigative Service, predicted that at least 100 people will be indicted within the next 90 days. Among the suspects are past and present Pentagon officials, as well as industry employees and consultants who allegedly paid bribes for inside information that gave companies an unfair advantage in bidding for contracts. Two Democratic Congressmen or their staffs are also under scrutiny. Eventually, Operation Ill Wind may rank as one of the biggest federal white-collar crime cases ever prosecuted...
...wide-ranging inquiry began in 1986 with a tip from an unidentified civilian employee of the Navy, and has concentrated heavily on that branch. But the Naval Investigative Service evidently did not warn Lehman (who resigned last year) that the probe was under way. Even Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was kept in the dark and, until last week, so was Carlucci. No one at the White House was informed until shortly before the matter became public...
...Presidential Guard, retook the Fao peninsula, a finger of land at Iraq's southern tip that Iran had occupied after weeks of bloody fighting in February 1986. An estimated 20,000 Iranian troops were routed; 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. A day after the Fao disaster, Iranian naval forces clashed in the gulf with U.S. ships that had just demolished Iran's offshore oil platform near Sirri Island in retaliation for mine damage done to the frigate U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts. The engagement cost Iran six ships, including two of its four frigates...
...Schluter led his coalition government into what he called a "very decisive election" that focused on the country's future role within the 16-nation Western Alliance. He had called the vote after the opposition passed a motion strengthening a 31-year-old ban, never enforced, against nuclear-armed naval vessels' visiting Danish ports. Strict observation of that prohibition would severely hamper the operations of NATO warships in Denmark's waters. Implicitly, the Prime Minister was raising a key question: How far can a small country go in assuming lesser risks and obligations than its partners in a military alliance...
...White House then began trying to discredit some of the book's claims. In a letter to TIME on White House stationery, Army Colonel John E. Hutton, the President's physician, wrote that Regan's description of the scene at Bethesda Naval Hospital in July of 1985 is inaccurate. Regan had speculated that Nancy may have considered delaying the President's colon surgery on the advice of her astrologer. Not so, says Hutton. Regan points out that he said he only "feared" she was consulting with her astrologer...