Word: gunboat
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...British had warned Italy not to let the ship sail, and an Italian gunboat prevented its departure. A clever Italian woman, the liaison between the Jews and the Italian government, coerced an Italian admiral into diverting the gunboat...
...Sand Pebbles. Enter 1926 China at the start of the Communist-Nationalist civil war with McQueen (whose sailor-suited Jake Holman may or may not have inspired the Village People to record "In the Navy") getting an appreciative look from a missionary's daughter as he boards his Yankee gunboat. Leave it, three hours and and a lot of great scenery later, with the perfect throat-wrenching closer: "What the hell happened...
...spent hours over midnight rations ("midrats") picking the brains of the two senior aviators in the squadron who flew into Iraq the first harrowing night of Desert Storm in 1991. "Everybody on the ship is prepared," McLaughlin says. "We all understand our role here as instruments of policy--gunboat diplomacy. Now it's like the old adage, 'Put me in the game, coach.'" The Nimitz's fighter pilots had devoted two weeks to poring over secret lists of targets in Iraq, according to Pentagon officials. The strikes, by Navy and Air Force jets as well as by cruise missiles, would...
...encouraging news that I can't announce now." Clinton added that he was guarded against getting too excited about seemingly positive developments. The Lebanese President said he found "a very sincere will" in Clinton to make peace in the Middle East. Even as negotiations continued, Israeli air, artillery and gunboat attacks continued in Lebanon for the 14th consecutive day, pounding suspected Hizballah guerrilla bases and the Beirut-Tyre highway. Rockets fell near a U.N convoy, supplying food and supplies to besieged villages in the South, damaging a U.N armored vehicle. No injuries were reported. Israeli war planes also blasted...
...operation was a success, how come the patient is dying? The Administration may have called it a "humanitarian" mission, but this was old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy: send in the Marines, depose a government you don't like, install a friendlier one and leave the natives to fend for themselves. Any impulse of Clinton policymakers to actually lift Haiti out of political, social and economic destitution--what is widely derided as "nation building"--was fatally tainted by the American fiasco in Somalia. "We achieved the objectives we aimed for," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, "so from our point of view...