Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carey, who propped him up as a straw man to draw away Beame's support in the primary, the governor dumped him. Now Cuomo draws most of his support from nervous Republicans, who have abandoned Goodman's foundering ship but are still holding out for a last chance to torpedo Koch...
...assemble this story of the men and women who flashed reports of Japanese ship and plane movements and rescued more than 100 downed pilots. A number of foundering sailors also owe their lives to the coastwatchers. One was a 26-year-old lieutenant (j.g.) named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose torpedo boat had been karate-chopped by the hull of a Japanese destroyer...
...almost a year, the Scheersberg A carried out normal freight duties in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Meanwhile, construction of five missile and torpedo gunboats purchased by Israel neared completion in the French port of Cherbourg. The boats were paid for by Israel, but France had halted all military trade with Arabs and Israelis. On Nov. 17, 1969, five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course...
...same time, nothing can torpedo a negotiation faster than even a hint of disrespect. The Soviets want to be treated like a great power. "They're very sensitive to any notion that they're being treated as less than equals," says former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson...
...apparent that too many of the nation's leaders have failed to recognize that the risks of nuclear war will not be abated by a continuing and sometimes witless expansion of the nuclear arsenal, or an attempt to torpedo arms control negotiations before they start. The risks of war can only be diminished by a mutual willingness on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to make together concessions that will increase the security of each. The Soviets claim that they are willing and eager to conclude new SALT negotiations. The time has come for the United...