Word: naval
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...Pacific. Thatcher announced that for security reasons, Great Britain, like the U.S., would continue to refuse to say whether its ships entering New Zealand ports carried nuclear weapons. "I hope (New Zealanders) would not ask whether they are carrying them," said Thatcher. "I should be very disappointed if our naval ships cannot visit New Zealand...
Clancy's book differs from the usual commercial publishing success in a number of ways. First, it was brought out not by Simon & Schuster or Random House but by the Naval Institute Press (N.I.P.) of Annapolis, an academic publisher specializing in works like The Mariner's Pocket Companion and Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Second, the author is not an experienced novelist but a Maryland insurance broker who wrote his tale of high-tech undersea warfare without having served a single day in the Navy, much less aboard a submarine...
Clancy had gone directly to N.I.P. with the manuscript of The Hunt because his only previously published writing, a letter to the editor and a three-page article about MX missiles, had appeared in the press's monthly magazine, Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. N.I.P. grabbed Clancy's book; as it happened, the editors had just decided to publish original fiction, provided it was "wet"--about the Navy...
...nothing but conventionally powered vessels to that country for the time being. But the key issue is whether they are nuclear-armed, and with that in mind, the Administration maintains that partners in a defense pact have no business imposing restrictions on one another. Says a senior Administration official: "Naval forces and their needs are as central to ANZUS as ground forces in Germany are central to NATO...
...trophy hunter, however, Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, the U.S. Force Commander of the invasion, was merely "cautioned" after trying to smuggle in 24 AK-47 automatic rifles and 24 empty ammunition magazines. Metcalf has since been promoted to Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare. Why the difference in punishments? Explained Pentagon Spokesman Major Richard Ziegler: "All service members fall under the jurisdiction of a uniform code of military justice. The approach to cases may be different." Later in the week, in response to criticism, the Pentagon announced plans to review the sentences meted out to the seven...