Word: navales
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA: 127 men and women, the last of the 29,000 Cuban refugees who had lived in tents at the American base in Guantanamo Bay, boarded a plane for Florida today. The refugees were picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard as they floated on rafts, small boats and inner tubes toward the American coast in the summer of 1994. "The importantant thing about the exodus that summer is that Castro allowed it to happen," reports Caribbean bureau chief Cathy Booth. "If he did not, then no one would have been able to come...
...Burke's daring command of Destroyer Squadron 23 in the Pacific theater earned him a place in Navy textbooks--and the nickname "31-Knot Burke" for his emphasis on stealthy speed over simple firepower. In postwar Washington, he navigated the shoals of Pentagon politics, rising to Chief of Naval Operations for three terms. An entire class of destroyers bears his name...
...fanned out through the French Quarter carrying briefcases with hidden radiation detectors, while rental vans packed with high-tech electronics roamed the streets and planes fitted with spy cameras swooped overhead. After three days, they found what they were hunting for: a simulated nuclear weapon hidden on a nearby naval base...
...THYRA JOHNSTON, 91, inadvertent civil rights pioneer; in Honolulu. Fair-skinned, blue-eyed and one-eighth black, Johnston lived as a white woman in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband Albert, a black physician who also "passed." Their white neighbors were shocked when Dr. Johnston's application for a naval commission in 1940 led him to reveal the couple's racial background. But the small town was ultimately accepting--Dr. Johnston's practice actually increased--and the story became the basis of the 1949 film Lost Boundaries...
Roderico Harp, one of three American servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, told a packed Japanese courtroom that U.S. military investigators coerced him into confessing to the crime. Harp, a 21-year-old Marine, testified at the Naha District Court that investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services woke him at four in the morning two days after the incident. Harp said he told the investigators what happened, but they asked him to "go in another direction" and say what the "Japanese would like to hear." When the trial opened November 7, Harp and another Marine...