Word: naval
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...Soviet naval officer and a band of co-conspirators lock the captain of their ship in his cabin, tie up the other officers and head for asylum in the West. Military authorities learn of the mutiny and set out in pursuit. Sound similar to The Hunt for Red October? No wonder. The incident, revealed last week in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, turns out to have been the real-life basis for Tom Clancy's blockbuster, the film version of which, starring Sean Connery, is now playing across...
Clancy first read of the incident in 1976, when the Washington Post carried an unconfirmed report. He got more details in 1982 from a master's thesis written by a student at the U.S. Naval Academy. Clancy acknowledges taking considerable dramatic license: his defecting submarine commander makes it safely to the U.S. after much cold war derring-do. "My book has a historical foundation," says the author. "But it is a work of fiction...
...among some political factions. Yet Cheney caught a slap from Philippine President Corazon Aquino. The U.S. Congress had recently cut $96 million from a $481 million military and economic aid package that Aquino apparently considered a precondition for negotiations on renewing U.S. leases to operate the huge Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base. Miffed, she canceled plans to meet Cheney. The Defense Secretary took the snub gracefully but declared that the U.S. will remain in the bases, whose leases expire next year, "only as long as the Philippine people wish it to stay -- and only if the terms...
...week, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov asked, "Suppose the bases go tomorrow -- where's the threat?" The Soviets, he insisted, "will not fill the vacuum." American planners are not so sure of that. Subic is strategically situated across the China Sea from Cam Ranh Bay, the former U.S. naval base in Viet Nam, which now berths about 20 Soviet warships...
...combat if war was declared. After Pearl Harbor, Johnson did ask for a leave of absence from the House, but he did not dash into battle. Caro meticulously records L.B.J.'s attempts to gain desk jobs in Washington and his junkets up and down the West Coast inspecting Naval facilities. Finally, facing political humiliation, he flew to the Pacific, went along as an observer on a bombing run in New Guinea, spent a few minutes under enemy fire, and returned at once to the U.S. For this he was awarded the Silver Star...