Word: naval
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What was most readily assessible was his princely biography. At age ten, Franco had negotiated a deal with his father Don Juan, the pretender to the throne, to raise the boy. He graduated from Sargossa Academy, the Spanish West Point, and spent a year at both the naval and air schools. He is the only man commissioned in all three service branches...
This education has been the key to the monarch's leverage on the naval forces, observers say. "It matters that this is a military man," says Karl. "He has been able to deal with the right-wing tendencies of the military without degrading the military as an institution." The King sure said of his officers. "I knew them. I used to take showers with them...
...phase of the 44-month-old war between Iran and Iraq. Saddam Hussein's fighting words also marked a resumption, after a respite of five days, of the devastating tanker war in the Persian Gulf. Twenty-four hours after he spoke, Iraq announced that it had hit two "naval targets" to the southeast of Kharg Island. Iran responded almost immediately by striking and heavily damaging a Liberian-registered tanker, the Chemical Venture, off Saudi Arabia. Next day Iraq claimed to have struck and destroyed a convoy of eight coastal freighters off Iran at the northern end of the gulf...
...much verifiable information, rumors sprang up everywhere. One report, denied by Washington, had it that a U.S. destroyer was fired on by an Iranian warplane. There were also reports of dissension within the Iranian armed forces over the Khomeini government's new policy in the gulf. Many naval officers were said to be opposed to it, and an airman was reported to have defected to Saudi Arabia in his U.S.-built Phantom F-4 fighter aircraft...
...grounds inside sparkle with fountains, winding waterways, aqueducts, pools and water sculptures. The fair has permanently opened up 4,000 ft. of riverfront that had become inaccessible to the city. Tall ships and small, paddle wheelers and naval vessels will tie up there during the summer. Most of the exhibitions, including those of the U.S., China, France, Egypt, Canada, Korea and the Mississippi states, feature water-related history, culture and technology. The water theme has provided a natural cue-if one is needed-for an Aquacade, styled after Billy Rose's hit of the 1939 New York World...