Word: naval
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...your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process." In 1982 the Philippine leader was welcomed with open arms at the White House. What stood uppermost in U.S. calculations at that time was the fact that Marcos controlled something that the U.S. badly needs: access to Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base, two of the most important American military facilities in the Pacific. Says a State Department official: "The bottom line always was, and always will be, those bases...
Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base are the largest U.S. military installations in any foreign country. With 18,000 men and women on active duty, they manifest the determination of the U.S. to maintain its power in the economically fastest-growing region in the world. Militarily, they project U.S. might all the way to the Persian Gulf and safeguard the sea-lanes through which 80% of the West's strategic raw materials pass...
...Chapter XI, the bomber burns 150 gallons of gasoline an hour, and a quart or two of oil. Taking maintenance into account, she estimates the operating cost at $650 an hour. A co-owner with her husband Jack Moore, an emergency-room physician in Sarasota and a former naval flight surgeon, she proudly displays her simple silver wedding band. "You will notice no diamonds," she said, saying further that "Jack and I joke that other doctors in Sarasota spend $200 a week eating out. We don't, and this is why." She swept an arm grandly back toward the gleaming...
...controversy swirling around Pollard began last month when co-workers at the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., reported that the 31-year- old analyst had been taking home highly classified material. When confronted by the FBI, he readily admitted to receiving nearly $50,000 since early 1984 for peddling secrets to Israel. A few days later, Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, drove to the Israeli embassy in Washington, seeking political asylum. The embassy turned them away, and Pollard was promptly arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges...
...repeated Ninoy's invitation to the estimated 16,500 Communist guerrillas belonging to the New People's Army to put down their guns and join the political dialogue. She has endorsed the removal from the Philippines of two U.S. military installations, Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Station, but, like Ninoy, she is vague about when they must go. She has promised to retain the bases at least until 1991, when an agreement with the U.S. expires. Despite her status as a folk hero to many Filipinos, Aquino will have to work hard to defeat the President...