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...Hazelwood did not win his battle with the bottle. Not long after he left the hospital, he was reinstated as the skipper of the Yorktown, an oil tanker that ran along the East Coast. Friends say that being closer to home helped him dry out. He regularly attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Huntington right up through 1988, but the sessions were often jammed with up to 90 alcoholics at a time. "The place was a social club," complains a former participant who remembers Hazelwood. "Only about ten or 15 people ever had a chance to talk." That seems to have...
...intimate marriage of science and dream, progress and exploration -- what, in fact, the New World had always stood for. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," Lyndon Johnson told the astronauts by telephone aboard the carrier Yorktown. "You've seen what man has never seen before." One of those things, which was to grow in significance in forthcoming decades, was the earth's finitude: with Apollo 8, humanity had found a godlike perch from which to examine its collective limits...
...First Salute is an Old World look at the New. There are no re-enactments of Paul Revere's ride, no echoes of the shot heard round the world. Instead, the critical naval battle in Chesapeake Bay and Washington's victory (with essential French aid) over Cornwallis at Yorktown are presented in the context of political decisions and misjudgments made thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Young America produced an unusual number of intelligent and bold leaders, but, to Tuchman, the success of its war of independence rested largely on the outcome of European struggles for colonies and commerce...
Freedom of navigation, a principle the U.S. Navy fought to assert against Libya in the Gulf of Sidra in 1986, was at stake again last week in the Black Sea. Two U.S. warships, the destroyer Caron and the cruiser Yorktown, sailed about ten miles off the Crimean peninsula in the Soviet Union. The ships were warned that they were violating Soviet territorial waters and then were bumped, the Caron by a Soviet patrol craft and the Yorktown by a destroyer. Damage was slight, and there were no casualties...
When neither the Caron or York-town changed course, a Krivak-class frigate moved up on the Yorktown and a Mirkaclass patrol vessel moved on the Caron, "grazing" the left sides of the each, Flynn said...