Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's newly aggressive naval forces last week also attacked a British- flagged tanker, Gentle Breeze, setting it afire and killing one seaman. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the assault "absolutely outrageous." In the wake of the attack, Britain finally ordered the closing of Iran's Arms Procurement Office in London, which has been operating openly on the international weapons market throughout the country's seven-year war with Iraq...
WHILE SECRETARY of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 prepared to visit American naval forces in the Persian Gulf last week, word arrived that an Army helicopter had sunk an Iranian ship spotted sowing mines in the Gulf. The incident proved what everyone has known all along: that the Iranians are responsible for the mines in the Gulf...
...United Nations naval presence in the Gulf would provide us with a way out of a difficult military situation. In addition, such a presence would clearly establish the world's support for U.S. action in the Gulf. At least this once, the Reagan Administration should use the United Nations as something more than a whipping...
...captain of a Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...
Those allegations are part of a disturbing report submitted to the Pentagon by a special committee studying the treatment of women serving in the Navy and Marines in the Pacific. After a two-week tour of naval bases in Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, the investigators concluded that in both services "the encouragement of a macho-male image contributes to behavior that is at best inappropriate and at worst morally repugnant." Both men and women in the Navy and Marines sometimes demand sexual favors from lower-ranking servicewomen, the investigators found...