Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outrageous prices for military accessories brought Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger out smoking hot last week. Three officers held responsible for the purchase of seven grotesquely priced ashtrays, including an admiral with 33 years of service, were relieved of their duties, Weinberger announced. The officers, all at the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, did not pay "the slightest attention to the basic idea that the price bore no relationship whatever to the value of the item," Weinberger said...
...safe-deposit box, hints of meetings in Europe and the Far East, and canes that become guns and daggers. There is even a woman who turns in her former husband. In hundreds of pages of documents, unsealed last week in Norfolk, Va., authorities describe how three members of a naval family allegedly schemed to supply U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union, resulting in what Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger calls a "serious loss" for the country...
...photographs he was able to obtain with his "secret" security clearance. Michael, who helped out at his father's detective agencies before joining the Navy, has been involved in the family spy business at least since 1983, after he had finished boot camp and was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. When Michael mentioned to his father that he had seen some classified material, say prosecutors, the elder Walker replied that there was money to be made if he could deliver it. Says FBI Spokesman Bill Baker: "We don't see ideological motives...
...Navy has established a panel of intelligence and operations specialists, led by Naval Intelligence Chief Rear Admiral John Butts, to determine what sort of intelligence the Walkers might have given the Soviets. So far, the best guess is that most of the information dealt with codes and, more important, with the way the U.S. keeps track of Soviet ships and submarines. U.S. and Soviet subs, armed with nuclear missiles, play a constant game of undersea hide-and-seek. If one side were to learn precisely how the other tracks the enemy, it might be able to develop techniques for avoiding...
...himself lifted by a towering wave. Frantically he looked around for his family, but all was lost in the darkness, behind blinding sheets of rain. "Everything was dark -- rain, rain. I was floating for several hours," he recalled of the hours he passed at sea before sailors from a naval vessel pulled him to safety. "I am a good swimmer, but it was terrible. I really do not know how I survived. And where," he asked, tears in his eyes, "where are my near and dear ones...