Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most serious German failure, though, was in military intelligence. Apparently because of the bad weather, neither naval patrols nor reconnaissance planes maintained surveillance of the invasion preparations on the crucial last day before the landing. German meteorologists assured their commanders that the storm would prevent any Allied attack, and that prediction prompted Rommel to take a quick trip home. His wife's birthday happened to fall on June 6. When Rommel heard the news from Normandy at his home near Ulm, he could
...next meeting was in 1945, when Truman, three months after becoming President, was preparing for the Potsdam conference and Clifford, a Navy lieutenant, was going to run the naval aide's office during the President's absence. Truman, from his desk in the Oval Office, looked up at the 6-ft. 2-in. Clifford and said, "Big fellow, isn't he?" There was the rock-bottom Truman again - unadorned, direct, kindly, humorous...
Told in flashbacks by Bligh at his naval trial for losing the ship, the movie switches back and forth between the present and the story of Bligh's tragic removal from his command. The flashback technique makes the movie even more choppy, we aren't sure if the Flashbacks are from Bligh's perspective or an objective portrayal of the events. The film becomes a potpourri of disjointed images, which sacrifices character development for landscaping...
...Fonseca, which borders Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. The mission is to disrupt the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. Pentagon officials stressed that the U.S. ships would remain outside Nicaraguan waters, pro viding only radar assistance to Salvadoran and Honduran naval patrols that attempt to intercept the arms smugglers. Nonetheless, congressional staffers in Washington decried the exercise as "yet another step" toward direct U.S. involvement in a Central American conflict...
...more interested in laying the issues out so we have a real debate instead of this sort of naval barrage where one side fires a salvo and the other answers." Silvers added...