Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard heavyweights square off against Princeton and MIT on Lake Carnegie today, and the lights face the Naval Academy on the Charles, it will become evident that neither Crimson squad was wholly complacent with last weekend's victories...
...Moscow, in a possibly ominous development, the Soviet Union summoned foreign ambassadors and formally asserted its right to free passage through the seas and air around Soviet-aligned Libya, a move that might signal Kremlin intentions to move naval vessels or other military equipment into the tense Mediterranean...
...pressure on Soviet clients, blasting Soviet- installed missile sites in Libya, lobbying for resumed military aid to the contras in Nicaragua, and now supplying missiles to anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola and rebels battling the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Then there have been symbolic actions that infuriated Moscow: a naval mission skirted U.S.S.R. waters to eavesdrop on Soviet communications on the Black Sea coast, and the U.S. ordered 38% of the Soviet diplomats at the United Nations (many of them spies, in the Administration's view) to be sent home in the next two years...
Hart aims his harshest criticism at the Navy, which he claims is building history's "most expensive naval museum," one designed to fight the last World War rather than any future one. The U.S., for example, has been funding aircraft carriers as the most effective way to project power. Hart dismisses the flattop as the ship that won the Battle of Midway (1942) and points out that the Soviet Union has been launching the capital ship of the next war--the submarine. The U.S. has 100 attack subs, the Soviets three times as many. American submarines are quieter, an important...
...officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed the Navy had yet to receive any orders to re-form a naval battle group in the central Mediterranean off Libya's coast. But they acknowledged the latest preparations were the clearest indication yet that plans were being studied for a military strike...