Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sailors who work for one-fourth the $1,110-a-month wages of U.S. merchant seamen. Even when the ships operate at a loss, they provide the Kremlin with badly needed foreign currency (more than $2 billion in 1984). Their military usefulness is indisputable. Several Soviet liners are equipped with side ports for vehicles, which are of little use on a cruise but of great value for troop carriers...
...Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure. Two more Chinese and one Indian died later. The toll was the worst from a single hit in the seven-month tanker...
...French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South Atlantic on May 4, 1982, with a loss of 20 seamen. Aerospatiale bought a page in The Economist (estimated circ. 252,000), which usually costs about $5,650, to dispute recent reports that the Exocet is not really the devastating ship killer Britons had come to revile. On the contrary, boasted Aérospatiale heartily, "Exocet is and remains the leader...
...March. In recent months, however, a number of publications, quoting military analysts, have charged that the missile often misses its target and that its 363-lb. warhead frequently fails to explode on impact. Aerospatiale had endured such criticism in silence, the ad indicated, partly out of "respect for the seamen who lost their lives during the fighting." Now, however, the firm could wait no longer to refute the "inaccurate information ... to set the record straight...
...think he's done a good job as far as helping the seamen around here. I don't see anything wrong with him," agrees a secretary at a Christian Science reading room in New Bedford...