Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January 21, Font went to First Army Headquarters at Ft. Meade to deliver a copy of his barracks report to Lt. General Jonathan P. Seaman, commanding general of the First Army at that time...
FONT HAS SAID he believes the charges stem from his Jan. 11 request that the Secretary of the Army convene a board of inquiry to investigate responsibility for alleged atrocities in Vietnam, including some said to have taken place during operations commanded by Seaman...
Then on Feb. 17, Font filed charges against Major General Samuel W. Koster for "dereliction of duty" for allowing war crimes to be committed under his command, and against Seaman for "conspiracy to commit war crimes" and for "dereliction of duty" for allowing his men to commit war crimes in 1967, with regard to Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, which he planned and executed...
...seagoing sophisticates, like Sir Humfry Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh, who, he quotes, also made "voyages of the mind." But he loves the men who were professional sailors first and last. Of Sir Martin Frobisher, who tried three times for a Northwest Passage, he writes: "A very great seaman indeed." There is no higher praise in the Morison lexicon...
RISING labor costs over the past two decades have virtually driven American shipping from the seas. Because American crews are the best paid in the world-$444 a month for the average able-bodied seaman, for instance -even the most efficient U.S. cargo ships cannot match the lower costs of foreign operators. To recapture a share of seagoing trade, the Government and the domestic shipping industry have placed a $400 million bet on a technological innovation: huge ships that carry fully loaded barges-known as lighters-across the oceans...