Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flaw in No Way Out is more easily explained and ignored. Indeed, viewers who arrive at the movie five minutes late and leave five minutes early will avoid the setup and payoff for the preposterous twist that spoils this lively, intelligent remake of 1948's The Big Clock. A naval officer (Kevin Costner) is assigned to investigate a murder committed by his boss, the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman, his honest face at odds with his twisted soul), but for which the officer is the prime suspect. Costner and the victim- to-be (gorgeous Sean Young) play a romping, stomping...
...dispatch from Iran's official news agency quoted a naval commander as saying his ships would start minesweeping operations today, in international waters not specified, but would not work in the Fujairah area without permission...
...Naval units of the two southern gulf countries, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, were searching for mines and the U.S. Navy was said to be helping farther from shore. A well-placed source in Saudi Arabia said its minesweepers also were in the area...
...sources said they didn't know if the planes spotted by the P-3 had been visually identified at any point. But one official said it appeared the planes had been monitored taking off from the Iranian naval base at Bandar Abbas on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz...
...Naval officers in the gulf had predicted that one of the biggest threats to their ships would come from mines. But no minesweeping ships or helicopters were included in the operation. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger conceded that the Pentagon was not prepared for the possibility that the sea-lane skirting the Iranian coast might be mined. "We did not look for mines in that area," he said, "because there have never been...