Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high seas, the captain of a ship is responsible for an attack on another vessel, whether he has ordered the attack or not. Nor is it likely that his subordinates will risk such action without orders from the bridge. Even less likely is it that the guilty subordinates will go scot free and even receive the captain's protection, having so jeopardized the ship's safety. But no captain enjoys the Bourbon inviolability of Mr. Nixon, once he reaches port...
Just three miles off Helvick Head on the southeast Irish coast, the navy's three minesweepers and a fishery protection vessel trapped a coastal freighter laden with five tons of arms. The catch was not mammoth as military matériel goes, but it included the kinds of weapons that the Provos have used to murderous effect: 250 submachine guns, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 antitank and antipersonnel mines, 500 lbs. of gelignite, 300 grenades, TNT, explosive fuses and detonators...
...never return. Though registered in Cyprus, the Claudia is owned by two Germans from Frankfurt. Her voyage to Ireland originated in Cyprus and included stops in the Mediterranean. There was evidence that the arms had been loaded at Tripoli. British intelligence alerted the Irish government to watch for the vessel. The trap staged by Irish forces indicated that new Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave plans to be at least as tough on the Provos as was his predecessor, Jack Lynch...
...that strange and terrible experience of facing death because of my color. The only reason that I was not killed was because my Chinese friends knew me under my skin and risked their lives for me." Next day they were able to reach the safety of a U.S. Navy vessel and a year's exile in Japan...
...sway there. They certainly cannot join the armed forces. Italy presently has 541 generals to command an army of 267,570 men. (The U.S., by contrast, has 508 generals for an army more than three times as large.) As for the Italian navy, it has 1.23 admirals for every vessel in the fleet...