Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball and into football next July. "But I'm having too much fun for second thoughts," he says. "George Brett, Willie Wilson and Hal McRae rag me all day long." Since the football games have begun, he has been following the fortunes of contemporaries like the Los Angeles Raiders' naval attache Napoleon McCallum. But he feels no pangs. "I'm glad it's over and sad it's finished," Jackson says with a soft laugh. "I'll sit up in the stands later this year and watch them play. And I'll smile and say, 'That's the life...
...admiral occasionally pulls rank and echoes broadsides from his memoir. He rehashes service politics, finds the racial attitudes of the previous Chief of Naval Operations contemptible, and the Viet Nam War "worse than futile": "The Navy men killed in the river war meant a proportionately greater saving of lives for the Army and the accelerated pacification of the delta. But all that was accomplished for nothing, so all these soldiers and sailors died in vain." Bitter truth does not come easily to him; the Naval Academy did not teach no-win decision making...
...Despite the dog's charms, Lucky proved too rambunctious for the presidential mansion and was shipped off to permanent exile last Thanksgiving. After her final flight aboard Air Force One, Lucky stormed down the gangway in full view of TV cameras and, characteristically, relieved herself on the Point Mugu Naval Air Station tarmac...
...second affidavit, Rear Admiral William Studeman, director of Naval Intelligence, outlined the "potential . . . war-winning implications for the Soviet side." Among other things, he said, decoding messages enabled the Soviets to figure out the location and routes of Navy vessels. For example, they may have learned the "operations order for Fleet Exercise 83-1, a unique exercise conducted near the Soviet coast by three carrier battle groups" in 1983, as well as the "communications plan for all U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...
...changed because the Soviets gauged the "true capabilities and vulnerabilities of the U.S. Navy (and) identified the specific steps which could achieve the largest gains" in enabling their fleet to fight more effectively. In recent years, said Studeman, "we have seen clear signals of dramatic Soviet gains in all naval warfare areas, which must now be interpreted in light of the Walker-Whitworth espionage conspiracy." There is a lingering fear, too, not mentioned in the court papers, that Whitworth or Walker may have installed in Navy communications what is known as a "trapdoor," a secret program that the Soviets could...