Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Samuel Loring Morison, a ship analyst at the U.S. Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., noticed three photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier lying on a colleague's desk, he thought they might be of interest to Jane's Defense Weekly, a British magazine. Morison, a part-time editor of a sister publication, filched the photos, which had been taken by an American KH-11 satellite, clipped the "Secret" markings off the corners and mailed the pictures to London...
...satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, faces up to 40 years in prison and a $40,000 fine...
...make recommendations that any or all of the individual services might oppose. The Chairman also would gain a permanent seat on the National Security Council and supervisory authority over the ten generals and admirals who command forces in the field. (Each leads a unified command--all U.S. land, naval and air forces in the Pacific, for example--or a specified command of one service. They now get their orders directly from the Secretary of Defense or the President...
...poorly armed. Coordination among the services was abysmal. Nunn cited the case of one Army officer who, unable to reach the Navy because of incompatible communication systems, had to use his AT&T credit card to phone his office in North Carolina to pass along a request for naval bombardment. In an interview with TIME, Goldwater noted that during the Grenada operation "52 top-secret messages were sent to the operational commander and never got there because one service's radios weren't operative with the other...
Harvard men's water polo pummeled Army, George Washington and Washington & Lee, going undefeated in this weekend's Eastern League Tournament at the Naval Academy in Annapolis...