Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helicopter ride from the White House to Bethesda Naval Hospital has become an all too familiar one for Ronald and Nancy Reagan, but the trip last Friday was the first occasion when Mrs. Reagan traveled as the patient. After a biopsy Saturday morning revealed a tiny malignancy in her left breast, the First Lady immediately underwent a modified radical mastectomy. Once the 50- minute operation was completed, however, the prognosis was good: the cancer did not appear to have spread beyond a small area. Doctors foresee no need for future radiation treatments or chemotherapy, and Mrs. Reagan's chances...
...protect, in part, Japanese oil supplies. Amid this babble of conflicting national interests, any American action, however justified, promised to inflame unfathomable hatreds. And the man with the responsibility for authorizing any retaliation was shouldering a more personal but no less worrisome burden as his wife entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for a biopsy and then a modified radical mastectomy. Nancy Reagan's plucky words on initially hearing of the cancer threat -- "I guess it's my turn" -- only underscored the randomness of life's lottery...
...aggression." As top national security officials gathered at the White House on Friday to formulate strategy, there was widespread speculation that the U.S. would retaliate, perhaps by attempting to destroy the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles thought to be responsible. Asked what the U.S. should do, a senior naval officer preparing papers for a National Security Planning Group meeting clenched his fist and raised it threateningly...
...Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight radiation specialists, including one from the U.S. and another from the Soviet Union. Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated. All patients are undergoing frequent decontamination...
...rivals these days are depicting him as Senator Thunderbolt. Gore has supported the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Libya. He opposes the proposal by most of his opponents for a ban on missile flight tests. He says his centrist views make him more "electable" than the other five Democrats in the race, particularly Michael Dukakis, who opposes almost any use of American force abroad as well as virtually all new nuclear weapon systems...