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...since the demand for immediate withdrawal was overwhelmed by the demand to cut American casualties, the war continued to rage onward, with U.S. air power playing the major role in the preservation of the Saigon regime. Since Cambodia, an immense American armada has ravaged the people and land of Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam with death and destruction from the air. It has become the linchpin of Nixon's policy--a fact to which we awakened with the brutal air strikes last week against Hanoi and Haiphong. Up until now, the White House has found domestic opposition...
That fleet will certainly include a powerful armada of nuclear-powered, missile-carrying submarines. Currently the Russians' most potent undersea weapon is the Y-class sub, called Yankee in American navy parlance, which is comparable in size and speed to the U.S. Polaris. As Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird will probably disclose in testimony to Congress this week, the Soviets now have in commission or under construction 42 Yankees. They are adding new ones at a present annual rate of twelve a year while the U.S. years ago leveled off its Polaris fleet at 41. The Russians are developing...
...switched the other way. By an unexpectedly wide margin of 356 votes to 244, Britain agreed in principle to join the European Economic Community effective Jan. 1, 1973. The decision may not have been quite on a par with the signing of Magna Carta, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, or Waterloo, as some claimed, but it did promise to change the shape and character of Europe-and Europe's role in the world...
Radcliffe skippers Barbie Grant and Janice Stroud led the armada by taking their respective divisions. Stroud topped the competition with five firsts, three seconds, and a sixth. Beth Goddard handled the sheets, for Grant, while Maggie Hivnor and Abigail Jones shared the honors in Stroud's division...
...ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...