Word: gunboat
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...minor controversies that did exist were like that which surrounded the appearance of Hitchcock's Life boat in the spring of '44-unfortunately, many felt, Walter Slezak in the role of a Nazi gunboat captain had been spotlighted too sympathetically...
...Manhattan's Wall Street by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Smack in front of the New York Stock Exchange, a dozen veterans in fatigue jackets passed out leaflets next to a big white van showing a film of American atrocities in Viet Nam. John Kerry, a former gunboat skipper who won a Silver Star in Viet Nam and was wounded three times, read a prepared statement: "We are all of us in this country guilty for having allowed the war to go on. We only want this country to realize that it cannot try a Calley for something...
Decorated for World War II service aboard a destroyer in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, Zumwalt also commanded a river gunboat that sailed up the Yangtze River to help disarm Japanese forces in Shanghai. There he met an attractive White Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works...
...make it an issue. Public tolerance has its limits, but so long as Nixon seems inclined to reduce the level of fighting, he may proceed as slowly as he wishes. He retains his free hand to steady the dangers in the Middle East with a rather showy brand of gunboat diplomacy. As the Administration's Vietnam strategy has provided the President's only duty is to avoid a national nervous breakdown at home. Democracies will approve half-measures when all the real alternatives are distasteful. But having survived the sixties, America has lost its taste for internationalist oratory, multi-security...
...most of the final lap, the Navy gray vessels rendezvoused outside Haifa and on New Year's Eve made their way into port as hundreds of Israelis cheered and ships' sirens split the air. Prayers of thanksgiving were recited in synagogues. Diners toasted the crewmen and exchanged gunboat jokes, some of them wordplays on the name of General Mordechai ("Moka") Limon, Israel's chief of arms purchasing in Europe and the man in charge of the Cherbourg escape. One joke had France's President Georges Pompidou walking into a French cafe and gloomily telling a waiter...