Word: naval
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Throughout the summer, antiwar demonstrators have used their bodies to block the movement of munitions at the naval weapons station in Concord, Calif. Last week that classic act of civil disobedience ended in tragedy when a weapons train plowed into a group of peace activists, mutilating one of them. As other demonstrators leaped out of the way, S. Brian Willson, 46, was caught sitting cross-legged on the tracks. Willson's wife and stepson watched in horror as the train dragged him 25 feet, fracturing his skull and severing his right leg below the knee. Surgeons later amputated his other...
Asked to assess his past, du Pont is helpless. There are no traumatic childhood memories, few personal crises in his charmed adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...
...sleek limousine glides through empty nighttime streets, circling the illuminated monuments of Washington. In the back seat, a clean-cut naval officer and a dark-haired beauty stare at each other a moment. Then they kiss, furiously. She flings herself on him. He gropes for the zipper of her strapless black-and-gold sheath. There is a flash of a man's hand on a creamy thigh, the pull of a black garter. Afterward, the officer and his friend relax into opposite corners of the limo and survey the damage. "My name is Tom," he says with a smile...
...presence in the region already totals 24 vessels and about 17,000 men. With the British and French ships, the armada will grow to 45 combat ships, the largest naval force in the area since World War II. Not everyone applauds that buildup. A bipartisan group of 100 Congressmen filed suit in Washington two weeks ago to compel President Reagan to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act. That measure, designed to give Congress a voice in military crises, would require the Administration to withdraw U.S. forces within 60 days unless Congress approves a longer stay. The case will take months...
...gulf continue to benefit an unlikely party: Iran. Last month the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq responded by curtailing air sorties against Iranian oil fields and halting strikes on tankers carrying Iranian oil. The U.S. naval presence has also discouraged Iraqi air attacks. All that has enabled Iran to boost its oil exports through the Persian Gulf from an estimated 1.5 million bbl. a day last month to an estimated 1.9 million bbl. today, greatly increasing its revenues...