Word: navales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early family photograph shows a cherubic little boy in the uniform of a Soviet naval cadet, grinning as he stands nestled between his father and mother. But Kim Jong Il's childhood was hardly a settled one. He was only seven when he lost his mother. She died in labor, delivering a stillborn infant just a year after her husband was anointed leader of North Korea by Stalin's regime. The Korean War then engulfed the peninsula, and Kim Jong Il spent its duration in northeast China. Back home, he transferred from school to school before graduating from...
...largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. ambassador to Haiti. "And I think the surge will continue to escalate...
...Coast Guard patrols intercepted at least 20 more refugee boats fleeing Haiti, adding about 400 asylum-seekers to yesterday's one-day record of 1,500. The surging response prompted Defense Secretary William Perry to weigh sending them to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba -- and sparked rumors in Haitian and U.S. political circles that invasion is imminent. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson doubts it: Haitian strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras is sending signals that he might step down in August, a major aim of the Clinton Administration...
Judge Zilly's ruling heartened gay-rights activists. "Change in this policy is inevitable," said Joseph Steffan, whose 1987 expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy on similar grounds was overturned by an appeals court late last year. "The only question is when, and decisions like this lead to the conclusion that it may be sooner rather than later." The military itself seems torn about whether to appeal the Cammermeyer verdict. "We have to press ahead," said one official. "If we let this decision stand . . . we'd be barred from enforcing our own policy." Yet Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx was more...
...Cambridge, because of Hitler, gender wasdestiny. Where Uncle Sam's finger pointed, Harvardstudents disappeared--or reappeared as look-alikesin a line of naval uniforms stretching, at drill,the length of the Yard. Males in a moment lostsafety, choice and freedom...