Word: nimitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time machine back to 1980. Mondale taxed the President with not knowing that submarine-launched missiles are "recallable"; he meant the exact opposite. Reagan got a big laugh by deriding a TV ad showing Mondale on the deck of an aircraft carrier, which the President identified as the Nimitz; if Mondale's policies had been followed, said Reagan, "he'd be deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never have been built. Actually, Mondale would have been high and dry; the carrier was the Midway, which was commissioned in 1945. He could hardly have voted against...
Mondale, Reagan said, had a "record of weakness with regard to our national defense that is second to none." Noting that the Democratic candidate has aired a campaign TV spot showing him standing on the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, the President asserted that if Mondale "had had his way ... he would have been deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never have been built...
...pair of attacking Libyan Su-22s. The rash, Soviet-supplied Libyan leader is a bête noire to the Administration: last February when Gaddafi was suspected of fomenting a coup against the pro-U.S. Sudanese regime, Washington sent four AWACS to neighboring Egypt and the carrier Nimitz to Libya's coast...
...destabilize the Sudan, Egypt's southern neighbor and ally. Gaddafi has sponsored at least two attempts to topple Sudanese President Gafaar Nimeiri. Last February the U.S. responded to suspicious Libyan air force movements near the Sudanese border by deploying AWACS planes to Egypt and the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the Egyptian coast. Relations between Gaddafi and Nimeiri are so bad that each has called for the death of the other...
...ICBMs being tested by Moscow, for example, is similar in size and range to the proposed MX; the other is mobile, similar in concept to what some analysts have proposed for the U.S. The Soviets are also trying to counter U.S. naval superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America's B-1B. Two new fighter jets being developed by the Soviets, the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, are to contain high-tech radar and weapons...