Word: nimitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...
...sources, who demanded anonymity, said the carriers Kennedy and Nimitz and a Mediterranean Amphibious Ready group of roughly 1900 Marines were steaming on a "routing patrol pattern" in the southeastern Mediterranean, south of Cyprus and relatively close to Lebanon...
...were considering possible charges to bring against Lonetree -- including espionage, which carries a possible death sentence -- the situation served to illustrate the continuing problem of security breaches by low-level personnel. Like Lonetree, Navy Yeoman Michael Walker, 24, convicted last year of sending classified material from the aircraft carrier Nimitz to his father, Soviet Spy John Walker, had easy access to sensitive documents: he too was on the burn-bag squad...
...Michael said. "I was shocked and afraid of what my dad was suggesting." Nonetheless, Michael did it. He first gave his father secret papers from a "burn bag" while he was assigned to a Navy fighter squadron in Virginia Beach, Va., in 1983. Aboard the carrier Nimitz, starting in 1984, Michael routed messages about U.S. tracking of Soviet submarines and filched copies for his dad. "My father was pleased and said it looked like we were on a roll," Michael said. While it is estimated that John Walker collected at least $1 million from the Soviets for the secrets...
...lack of firepower available should it choose to launch a retaliatory raid. The aircraft carrier Nimitz, with at least 60 fighter- bombers and an amphibious landing force of 1,500 Marines, sits just off the Lebanese coast. A Delta Force unit reportedly stands ready on Cyprus, 100 miles from Beirut. The 100-plus Delta operatives are highly trained, but they have been used only twice against terrorists -- both times unsuccessfully. The 1980 Iranian hostage-rescue attempt was aborted in the desert when two helicopters broke down; during the invasion of Grenada the Delta commandos failed to reach the Richmond Hill...