Word: torpedoed
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...Arabic script on Egyptian ships. "The court produced evidence that the Israeli armed forces had ample opportunity to identify Liberty correctly," said the summary. But it added: "The court had insufficient information before it to make a judgment on the reasons for the decision by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats to attack...
...report-and charges that Garrison has offered to bribe witnesses in the investigation, prompted New Orleans' Metropolitan Crime Commission to call for an investigation of the D.A. himself. As for Garrison, he charged that NBC was trying to "torpedo the state's case." He also asserted that NBC had offered to pay Russo's expenses if he wanted to slip away to California before Shaw went on trial. NBC News President William R. McAndrew denied Garrison's charges, but the following day Russo told a news conference that he had indeed been offered such help...
...Israeli side, coverage was far less fettered. Few of the 300 foreign correspondents who flooded into the country had trouble getting to one of the fronts in some military vehicle- helicopter, half-track or torpedo boat. Oth ers were shuttled to battle sites in a pair of tourist buses, which had a habit of getting lost in the desert. Israeli information officers joked with reporters, censored their copy perfunctorily, and often leaked news before it was officially released...
...back up its threat, it set up guns on the heights of Sham el Sheikh and trained them on the narrow Tiran Strait that controls the gulf's entrance, planted mines in parts of the passage, and sent torpedo boats and jets to patrol the waters. Israel announced that it would consider a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba "an act of war." The U.S., joined by Britain and France, made it clear that it considered the gulf to be international waters and would oppose any Arab attempt to close it off indefinitely...
...Queens' nagging troubles threatened to torpedo the entire group of Cunard companies. In 1965 Cunard lost $7,560,000 on the Queens and its five other passenger ships, turned a slender $520,000 before-taxes profit only because of income from freighters and other investments. Last year's British seamen's strike, which cost Cunard more than $10 million in revenues, speeded the demise of the Queens...