Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vessel, which is about half complete, may turn out to be a tanker or a big cargo freighter. But some Allied naval experts are already willing to bet that the Pentagon is right, and that the ship really is Russia's first attack carrier (it already has two cruiser-sized helicopter carriers). If so, the decision to build an attack carrier represents a dramatic and fundamental shift in Moscow's naval strategy, with profound consequences for the rest of the world. "It changes the whole ball game," says retired U.S. Commander Robert Waring Herrick, a onetime naval attache...
...chains of command, the commercial and armed navies often work in tandem. A visit to a neutral port by a Russian freighter, for instance, may be followed by a request for docking privileges by a trawler fleet-then by the flag-showing appearance of a rakish, gray-hulled missile cruiser...
...from the Baltic-a move that would require approval from the Danish Parliament. The Soviets now regard the Baltic as virtually a Cornmunist sea. On a "goodwill" call in Copenhagen last August, Soviet Vice Admiral L.V. Mizhin, deputy commander of the Soviet Baltic fleet, pointedly complained that an American cruiser had shown up in the Baltic Sea, and that West Germany had intensified its naval exercises there. The Soviets are on the verge of achieving their most concrete gain to date in Iceland, which is known as "the cork in the bottle" for the entire northern tier of NATO...
...custodian were moving a book cart. It toppled over, crushing the big toe on Julie's left foot. Posing for her first picture as a housewife in the Atlantic Beach house that she and Ensign David Eisenhower have rented while he serves aboard the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Albany, Julie showed off her large plaster cast to photographers. Then, after learning that her cast may have to remain on from four to six weeks, Julie "with extreme disappointment" decided to give up her teaching job. Instead, she plans to serve as a volunteer teachers' aide when she recovers...
...What spy?" asked the man at his side, an Izvestia correspondent who was aboard the cruiser because Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov and General Aleksei Yepishev, the top political commissar for the Soviet military, were paying a visit to Moscow's Mediterranean fleet...