Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlantic Coast of the U.S. had simply gone out of business. In Manhattan, the bosses of the Wall Street stock exchanges and most banks decided to close house, in Atlantic City the managers of sleepless gambling casinos shut down for the first time in their seven-year existence, in Norfolk the Navy got most of its ships out of the harbors to ride out the trouble, and all over the East the Air Force ordered its planes to the safety of inland air bases...
...sped away. Although he said he was not physically abused, he spent a year in solitary confinement and was not even allowed to see a newspaper until last July 2. He was let go on Sept. 14, after 495 days in captivity. Flown in a U.S. Government plane to Norfolk, Va., he was met by his family and State Department debriefers. Word began leaking out, first on Sunday from Reuters in Beirut, then from the family. President Reagan announced Weir's release at the end of a Wednesday tax-reform speech in Concord, N.H., but by then it had made...
Then once you came to Norfolk County Court, you still didn't tell the truth. We learned that you lied--UNDER OATH, TWICE--in 1975 and 1978 about your bogus Harvard graduate degree. We learned from your ex-wife that your need to boast about this non extent Harvard degree was an addiction, that it was a habit you could not shake...
...Stethem decided to spend the holiday the same way they had spent the past few weeks: together. The intensive training and small size of their unit makes for ready camaraderie, but Stethem's murder had brought them even closer. With their wives, they went on a secluded picnic in Norfolk, Va., not far from the base where all had trained...
...Norfolk, federal prosecutors herded yet another Walker -- John's older brother Arthur, 50 -- through a preliminary hearing toward arraignment this week. Arthur, who retired from the Navy as a lieutenant commander in 1973, is apparently cooperating with investigators, unlike his brother and nephew, who have pleaded not guilty. Evidence in the hearing strongly suggested that money was the Walkers' motive. Documents indicated that after the 1979 failure of a car-radio shop, Arthur and John Walker faced a $28,807 lien for unpaid taxes. FBI agents testified that John Walker then urged his brother to get a job "where...