Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Navy, traditionally the nation's most class-conscious service. There was its highest officer, his bushy eyebrows knit in concentration, his head tilted to catch each word, as some 1,000 sailors at the San Diego Naval Station met with him to sound off their gripes -some general, some highly personal -about military life. Quietly and sympathetically, Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt responded to each. Clarence Burris, a black cook whose wife had died of cancer and whose three daughters now need his presence, pleaded for a shore assignment, since his ship was about to sail. Zumwalt immediately ordered aides...
...altitudes and utilizes short runways. It will carry three tons of bombs, two 20-mm. cannon, and possibly a third gun called the Vulcan, which is electrically operated and fires 6,000 rounds a minute through six barrels. The Super-Mirage is equipped with a U.S.-manufactured J-79 General Electric engine similar to the one that powers U.S.-built Phantoms. Israeli engineers have also installed the J-79 in their older Mirage3 jets, replacing the French Atar engines. As a result, they have better aircraft: the switch has boosted Mirage3 speeds...
...Gromyko may have been advised by Moscow before reaching the White House, the plane was unarmed and carried no spy gear. A twin-engine cruiser, it had set out from the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, carrying the head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey, Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer; his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.; Major James P. Russell Jr., the pilot; and Colonel Cevdat Deneli, a Turkish liaison officer. Their mission was to inspect Turkish forces at Kars, some 20 miles from the Soviet border...
...Kremlin note complained nonetheless that "general military activity" of the U.S. near Soviet borders has been responsible for ten violations in the past three years, including the U-8 affair. However, none involved spying missions. Five of the violations occurred when U.S. polar-bear hunters overflew several small Russian islands in the Bering Strait. Three others concerned U.S. commercial flights along the polar route to Japan. Another involved a U.S. fighter-interceptor that flew over Soviet-held Big Diomede Island while chasing off a Soviet bomber near the Aleutian Islands...
...Malaysian Minister of Works Tun V.T. Sambanthan regularly consults Hindu priests to determine the best days to open new facilities. Cambodian Premier Lon Nol is said to have summoned a monk named Mam Prum Moni. Says a member of the National Assembly: "He is the most important man for General...