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...much congressional opposition to a Ford proposal to sell Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Jordan that the White House prudently withdrew the plan. The House overwhelmingly approved a $31.1 billion appropriation for military weapons, including such controversial Administration projects as the B-1 bomber and a nuclear strike cruiser, but the Senate refused to agree; a joint conference committee will reconsider the issue in September...
...biggest warship in the convoy, as it turned out, was not Egypt's. It was instead the 14,600-ton guided missile cruiser Little Rock, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The Little Rock was trimmed with flags, including the Stars and Stripes, which flapped visibly in the hot summer wind. Two Soviet admirals among the guests in the flotilla-Moscow's sole representation at the ceremonies-glowered and gloomed...
...Kuznetsov's advocacy of an aggressive "oceanic" strategy for the Soviet sea arm appealed to Stalin. He quickly rose through the ranks as senior officers were liquidated in the 1937- 38 purges, and became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from...
...resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate was being discussed...
...systematic terror squarely on Lenin. He notes that Lenin was the first Soviet leader to use the designation "concentration camps," thus "launching one of the most important terms of the 20th century." Indeed, he adds, "The Archipelago was born with the first gun salvos of Aurora" -the battle cruiser that signaled Lenin's seizure of power in October 1918. The "alma mater," as Solzhenitsyn calls it, of all subsequent forced-labor camps was established under Lenin in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arctic. Later, Stalin made slave labor a dominant factor in the Soviet economy...