Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dates from last July, after New Zealand's new Prime Minister, David Lange, 42, led his Labor Party to victory with, among other promises, the intent to ban port calls by nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels. The proscription applied to all foreign shipping, but it really meant U.S. naval vessels. At first it appeared that the matter could be compromised or finessed without great difficulty. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told Lange in Wellington last July that the U.S. would refrain from sending any naval vessels to New Zealand ports for six months or more. According...
...even if external threats to life and freedom have seemed remote in the South Pacific. The U.S. is specifically concerned about the growth of the Soviet Union's blue-water navy, pointing to increasing Soviet use of facilities at Cam Ranh Bay, once the main U.S. military complex and naval base in Viet Nam. Says a U.S. official: "We are facing a real problem of Soviet penetration...
...armed or nuclear-powered ships. Such a stand would effectively ban all U.S warships from New Zealand ports, since Washington declines to indicate which of its ships carry nuclear weapons. The matter came to a head last week when Lange refused a routine U.S. request to allow an American naval vessel to call on New Zealand during naval exercises in March. The Prime Minister thus set the stage for a prolonged and potentially bitter battle with Washington over the future of the 1951 ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.) security pact...
...against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, who were accused of leaking the Pentagon papers, but the case was later dismissed because of misconduct by the prosecution. Now, however, the Government has brought what seems to be a test case against Samuel Loring Morison, 40, an analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center (NISC) and grandson of famed Historian Samuel Eliot Morison...
...said the missile went off course after it was launched during an exercise in the Barents Sea, "and disappeared in a westerly direction." The apologetic tone contrasted sharply with the Soviet reaction following similar events. When, for example, a Soviet submarine was detected in shallow waters near a Swedish naval base in 1981, Moscow denied that Swedish waters had been violated, and it accused the Swedes of trying to create an anti-Soviet atmosphere. As for the misguided missile, as this week began it was still missing in the wintry gloom of northern Finland...