Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Whitworth's arrest, the Navy's unfolding spy debacle took on an ominous added dimension. Up until then, the espionage ring that began unraveling three weeks earlier had seemed a family affair. The three suspects were related: Alleged Ringleader John Walker Jr., 47; his son Michael, 22; and John's brother Arthur, 50. All were present or former Navy men, and all lived in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, the home base of the Atlantic nuclear fleet and a center of highly classified shipbuilding. While each had some access to the secrets of submarine warfare and coded communications...
...Whitworth, in addition to being outside the family, could have extended the ring's reach to the Pacific and even to the Indian Ocean. He had taught Navy communications in San Diego, had served in the Pacific as communications watch officer aboard the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and had been in charge of communications security at the Alameda Naval Air Station near Oakland. He was familiar with the Navy's Indian Ocean activities thanks to two tours of duty at the highly secret base on the remote island of Diego Garcia. The FBI claimed that Whitworth had operated...
Some high Government officials suspected that the ring was even larger, and the New York Times quoted one as saying there could be "four or five" additional arrests. He told the Times: "I'm afraid that this is only the tip of the iceberg...
Divestment has caught fire precisely at a time when the cult of the dollar has reached its height and arguments for the inherent morality and justness of capitalism ring most shrill. The movement urging Harvard to divest of its $580 million in South Africa-related investments is an important step towards infusing the free market with a needed dose of democratic decision-making and morality...
Then, one day in April 1932, the Class of '35's freshman year, the bell failed to ring...