Word: naval
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...those taken into custody by the Coast Guard, 538 have been shipped back to Haiti, 350 have been sent to camps in four Caribbean nations, and more than 2,300 are aboard Coast Guard cutters or have been transferred to U.S. troop ships and the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. According to Coast Guardsmen who took part in the rescue effort, many of the fleeing Haitians' boats are no better than floating coffins. Many of the passengers are so seasick, hungry and dehydrated that they cannot answer the questions put to them by overworked immigration officers stationed...
...more for their own health care should do so. In addition, subsidies should be more carefully rationed when it comes to extremely complex and costly medical procedures for very old patients. "Most of the elderly would probably accept that idea," says Dr. Perry Stafford, a surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. "It is usually their families who have this tenacious hold on anything that will prolong life. It is hard for people to see that at some ) point, you are prolonging death, not life...
...Haitians are aboard four Coast Guard vessels, two of which are at anchor off the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The remaining two vessels are on the lookout nearby for additional refugees...
...Robert K. Massie notes in Dreadnought (Random House; 1,007 pages; $35), the Portsmouth review marked "the high-water mark of British naval supremacy," which had gone virtually unchallenged since Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory over a French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter years of the 19th century, however, France and Russia had constructed seemingly formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that...
...tars were ill fed and worse led. While their social-climbing officers fopped and preened, sailors spent long days at sea scrubbing decks and polishing brightwork, or wielding cutlasses in boarding drills as if they were still in the age of sail. Meanwhile, gunnery practice was cursory even though naval bombardments were ludicrously inaccurate. In 1881, for example, eight British battleships fired 3,000 rounds at forts guarding the Egyptian city of Alexandria and scored precisely 10 hits...