Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philippines, the Newstour went to Clark Air Base, where Major- General Gordon (Gordy) Williams and his counterpart at nearby Subic Bay Naval Base, Rear-Admiral Edwin Kohn, described the strategic importance of the two U.S. facilities. The guest journalists met with a broad range of political figures, including Jaime Cardinal Sin and the widow of assassinated Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. They spent a total of five hours with President Ferdinand Marcos, first in a rigorous question-and-answer session (see WORLD) and then at a banquet that evening...
...official says that this month Hanoi will begin to disinter the remains of U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action since the Viet Nam War. Despite such concessions, however, Pham's country faces an array of diplomatic problems, including China's continuing hostility and U.S. unease over the Soviet naval presence at Cam Ranh Bay. Excerpts from the interview...
...Group last Tuesday to reach a final decision. Deputy Defense Secretary William Taft, sitting in for his boss, repeated the Pentagon case that there was no need at the moment for a new proposal, and that the terms had to be more favorable to the U.S. But Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins, representing the JCS, said the Joint Chiefs did not find the plan detrimental to U.S. military interests. Having put the numbers through the & wringer, he said, the military brass found them acceptable...
...reform, open elections and an efficient economy freed from the corrupt grasp of Marcos' cronies. The ultimate fear: an eventual Communist takeover that would result in the loss of a longtime ally and deprive the U.S. of critical military installations at Clark Air Force Base and the Subic Bay Naval Station...
...first, scientists insisted it could not possibly work. Then they said it was too hard to understand. But three decades after Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle, working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, developed a mathematical method to determine the three-dimensional structure of molecules, no chemist can live without it. Recognizing the importance of the analytical technique, the Nobel Committee awarded the 1985 Prize for Chemistry to Karle, who still works at the Naval lab, and Hauptman, now the research director of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo Research Laboratories. The honor was not entirely unexpected...