Word: naval
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Ross Perot's return will revive similar concerns about his respect for the truth. Over the years, the Texas billionaire offered different accounts of his attempt to cut short his Naval service. One of Perot's explanations -- that he wanted out because he had been told by his commanding officer to bend or break certain shipboard regulations -- has been flatly denied by the now retired officer...
...Pentagon briefing on the report, Acting Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe announced the early retirement of two senior officers who had been charged with heading the inquiry -- Rear Admiral John Gordon, the Navy's judge advocate general, and Rear Admiral Duvall ("Mac") Williams Jr., commander of the Naval Investigative Service. Both promptly disputed the report. Williams and Assistant Navy Secretary Barbara Pope had a "screaming match" in which Williams compared female Navy pilots to "go-go dancers, topless dancers or hookers...
During the World War II, he was director of instruction of the U.S. Naval School's business department...
...attempt to address these problems, Demydenko is working to convert the Kiev Mohyla Academy, founded in 1615, from a naval academy to a private university focusing on environmental issues. This project was made possible by an agreement signed last February between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection...
...denied the import of the piece and maintained that he had already explained his behavior fully. Until Friday, his aides claimed Clinton was and is unaware of his uncle's activities -- whatever they might have been. But then came a report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette quoting a retired naval reserve officer, Trice Ellis Jr., as saying he himself had told Clinton of Raymond's efforts in March of this year. The candidate conceded that the report was true...