Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief architects of the ethics bill, Democrats David Obey of Wisconsin and Richardson Preyer of North Carolina, have been cold-shouldered by many colleagues because of the legislation. Some call Preyer "Chairman Mao," as if he were a dictator regulating their lives. According to Obey, the only time recently that he has got a smile from New York Democrat Mario Biaggi was when an untrue rumor circulated that Obey was retiring...
...warships steam toward the Persian Gulf, intelligence reports warn that a large number of Soviet bombers have left their bases. At the same time, an American P-3C antisubmarine patrol plane detects a Soviet sub north of the carrier group and within missile range...
...security depends on surface vessels capable of performing the two major missions that have been assigned to them since the end of World War II. They are: ? Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean...
...modernized his fleet, increased its firepower and greatly extended its range. At one time his ships rarely ventured far from Russia's shores. But as he has commissioned new vessels that seem designed primarily to attack U.S. ships, they have gradually pushed down the Norwegian Sea and into the North Atlantic. They have steamed through the eastern Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, even the Caribbean. By 1973 Gorshkov was able to boast: "The flag of the Soviet navy flies over the oceans of the world...
Seabrook is a matter of life. If completed, the plant will be only 40 miles north of Harvard Square. But a report done for the Atomic Energy Commission concluded that a major accident in a plant half the size of Seabrook could contaminate an area of land equal in size to the state of Pennsylvania...