Word: rivero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oceans has been growing with remarkable rapidity for several years now (TIME cover, Feb. 23, 1968). "Nothing stops them," admits Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "They are moving in everywhere." Nowhere is this more true than in the Mediterranean. Warns U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero Jr., the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) commander of NATO forces in southern Europe: "What was traditionally NATO's southern flank has developed into its southern front. The Mediterranean, which was for NATO part of the zone of the interior, a rear area, is now within the battle zone...
...have been played by the Pentagon, both the intelligence and the military proper, that it was not exclusively a CIA operation. And I have a very strong suspicion that the naval arm of the Pentagon, with headquarters more or less in Naples, played a very important role. Admiral Horatio Rivero was the American Admiral in charge of the southeast wing of NATO. He must have played an important role. The other fact which is of some interest-but this fact I don't know directly except through junta sources-a defector from the junta told us this-that Cyrus Vance...