Word: navales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President decides to launch a naval blockade, or "quarantine," to halt the arrival of more offensive weapons from the U.S.S.R...
...Radcliffe students in naval training were reffered to by what name...
Except in Korea (and for another year or so outside the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba), the U.S. uses only "smart" mines that disarm or destroy themselves, usually after 48 hours. The U.S. has its own ban on exporting mines and in the past 18 months has scrapped 1.5 million of them and will get rid of another 1.5 million by 1999. Meanwhile, since 1993 the Pentagon has spent $150 million on demining and training deminers around the world. Such efforts cost more than money. The nine Americans killed two weeks ago in a midair collision over the Atlantic...
...quest for money never stops. In fact, few fund-raising appeals have been as bold as the one launched suddenly last spring asking donors for a tax-deductible $10,000 to help fix up the Vice President's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. The letter arrived on desks all around Washington amid stories about the Democratic Party's intense scouring for cash in the 1996 campaign; it struck even hardened Washingtonians as audacious. The signature on the letter? Peter Knight...
...naval force that crept onto the Lebanese coast in the blackness of last Thursday night consisted of 16 men. Some of them swam ashore; the Lebanese found their wet suits and fins. At 12:41 a.m., on the outskirts of the town of Insariyeh, two miles inland, a pre-planted bomb suddenly detonated in the midst of the unit. Within seconds the Israelis were raked by machine-gun fire. Eleven died, and four lay wounded, leaving just one soldier unscathed and able to radio for help...