Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former First Lady's comments on her relationship with her husband are revealing. She was 17 when she caught the eye of the earnest home-town boy who attended the U.S. Naval Academy. "I knew this was the person I would fall in love with, the person I wanted to have fall in love with me," she recalls. As a Navy wife, she lived in locations from Connecticut to Hawaii, far from the strictures of small-town life. When her husband decided, after the death of his father, that the family must return to Plains, she was devastated...
...launched from a ship offshore. Said the rebel officer: "We don't have the trained people to take care of anything on the sea. So it was understood that marine engagements would be taken care of by another party." In the past, the A.R.D.E. has never demonstrated a naval capability...
Informed of the A.R.D.E. claims, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger stated unequivocally that the U.S. had not provided naval assistance. A spokesman for Naval Secretary John Lehman labeled any notion of U.S. Navy involvement "absurd." When asked if any such ship or ships were either operated or supported by the CIA, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane told TIME: "I cannot comment on intelligence operations." As a matter of policy, the CIA refused to confirm, deny or even discuss any of its operations. Nicaragua's neighbors, Honduras and Costa Rica, have the wherewithal to provide naval assistance, but it is unlikely...
...ship as long as we have the contributions of all the NATO navies." Together, the NATO powers at present have some 1,400 warships at their disposal for the defense of Western Europe. While emphasizing the essentially defensive nature of last week's exercises, a top British naval expert observes: "These maneuvers underline the arrival of the Soviet fleet as a blue-water navy of the first rank. Of that, we in the West should take full notice." -By William E. Smith. Reported by Ross H. Munro and Bruce Van Voorst/Washington...
...moth is still under tape along with records of the experiment at the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center...