Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...
Last year Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence approved a formal agreement with MIT and ROTC, putting into writing the 1976 arrangement whereby Harvard students could get credit for three of the eight Naval ROTC courses offered through MIT academic departments--even though the Faculty had designated ROTC an extracurricular activity...
...Naval blockades and the mining of territorial waters rounded out McFarlane's list of the "active" measures that could be used to combat terrorism. The U.S. must also improve its "passive" anti-terrorism measures by gathering and sharing intelligence with its allies, improving security, and by increasing international cooperation in law enforcement against terrorists, McFarlane said...
...military section of the Tripoli International Airport, base of Libya's fleet of nine Il-76s, which have been used in terrorist operations for supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
...quickly out of the Libyan light show and headed north. For the airmen flying the F-111s, that prospect included an additional eight hours' flying time and two more midair refueling operations. One last snafu occurred when one of the F-111s overheated and was diverted to a U.S. naval station near the Spanish town of Rota. When the rest of the crews returned to Britain after spending 15 hours strapped into the F- 111s' tight quarters, some men had to be lifted out of their seats...