Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Black Sea, through the Dardanelles, and into the Mediterranean last week moved a big Soviet floating drydock, the second in a month. Likely destination: satellite Albania, Soviet Communism's only Mediterranean base. Last month a Soviet cruiser, the Mikhail Kutuzov, so new that it is unlisted in the 1957 edition of the authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships, passed through the Dardanelles under escort of three destroyers. Earlier, three Soviet submarines entered the Mediterranean by way of Gibraltar (and were turned over to Egypt). Russia was telling the world that Mare Nostrum means Russia...
...that it is losing Trincomalee in Ceylon, has direct communications with the Persian Gulf, without permission of Nasser. Finally, now that the Mau Mau are quelled, the Kenya natives are friendlier than the population in Cyprus. Accordingly, Sandys returned last month convinced that Britain's main Middle East base should be moved south from Cyprus to Kenya, and Cyprus kept only as a bomber base in event of war with Russia...
Freedom to Choose. With Britain's strategic requirement thus reduced from "Cyprus as a base" to "a base on Cyprus," the way was cleared for a new political initiative there. Last week Governor Sir John Harding arrived in London for talks about the island's future. By week's end Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his cabinet were reported to have worked out a plan by which Cypriots would get the offer of a program leading up to the island's independence. The British were now willing to negotiate with the once banished Archbishop Makarios...
...director of the school, only to be reprimanded for giving such prominent men a test in the first place. But last week McNaughton faced one more ordeal before leaving for home: final examinations. Said he resignedly: "They're just a formality. I've been ordered not to base my grades on the exams. I couldn't anyhow. They're all going to compare answers, and I can't flunk anyone...
SOVIET PRODUCTION is increasing by 9.9% a year v. 4.4% for U.S., says House-Senate Joint Economic Committee. But gap between two countries is actually widening because U.S. advances are figured on much bigger base, and rate of Soviet increase is slowing down. Committee figures that Soviet industry is one-third size of U.S. industry, mostly because Soviet production of consumer goods is far lower...