Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memos and giving background briefings warning that the huge Soviet naval buildup of recent years requires a matching growth in U.S. seapower. These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning battle stations as if it were fighting for its life. In a sense it may be, for the eventual resolution of this bitter dispute could...
...they consider the backbone of the service, have been dramatically slashed, from $5.8 billion this fiscal year to $4.7 billion next. This will permit the construction of only 15 new vessels instead of the 29 planned by the Ford Administration's budget projections. Not since Pearl Harbor, protest some Navymen, have so many ships been sunk at one time. This reduction, moreover, appears to be only the first of many. The Administration's five-year shipbuilding plan, submitted in late March, gives the Navy 70 new ships, costing $32 billion, through fiscal 1983. This is only half of what...
...academy, Sareya was opposed by guards and students who managed to quash the coup attempt, but not before eleven were killed and 27 wounded. By week's end the government had arrested 75 plotters: 16 young cadets, two navymen and 57 university and high school students. Libya's Minister of Interior Major Khweidly el Hamidy rushed to Cairo to piously insist that his government had nothing to do with the coup, but Sadat did not believe him. The Egyptian President gave him a tongue lashing that sent him scurrying back to Tripoli. Then Egyptian officials claimed that under...
...sentimental and tries very hard to turn behavior like child desertion into the stuff of melancholy whimsy. All during this gruesome exercise there are some sharp supporting performances, notably by Allyn Ann McLerie as a snippy social worker and Allan Arbus and David Proval as a couple of Navymen. James Caan and Kirk Calloway, as the sailor and the kid, are very good too - so much better than the material, in fact, that you almost wonder why they bothered...
Many responsible Chileans are already beginning to wonder how the military would respect civil liberties. Recently, there have been reports that enlisted navymen loyal to Allende have been not only arrested but tortured for their opposition to coup-minded officers. A group of marines broke into a Valparaiso radio station, where wives of the imprisoned sailors were taking part in a forum sponsored by the Socialist Party, and arrested all the participants. When Socialist Deputies called on the naval commander of the district to protest, he simply refused to see them...