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...Boisgeloup near Gisors, which he bought in 1931; a sumptuous Belie Epoque villa at Cannes, La Californie (which he quit in pique when a real estate developer put apartment blocks on the land below the garden, ruining the view); and the enormous castle of Vauvenargues on the north flank of the hill that Cézanne often painted, Mont St.-Victoire. But Mougins has become his cloister. "He doesn't travel any more. He hardly even goes into Cannes
That spectacle points up a growing Soviet threat to the northern flank of NATO, which extends from Norway's North Cape to West Germany's Baltic coast (see map). NATO's northern command is outnumbered by the Soviets four-to-one on the ground, seven-to-one in aircraft and six-to-one in ships in the north. "The Russians are very busy displaying raw military power on the northern flank," reports TIME Correspondent John Mulliken, who recently toured the region. "It is a significant example of how the Soviets intend to use the pressure of their...
...Russians' overwhelming military predominance in the northern flank is most evident in the icy waters of the area. Since the Soviet navy launched a massive buildup after the 1962 Cuban crisis, it has become, as Jane's Fighting Ships notes, "the supernavy of a superpower." Moscow's growing strength at sea has long since been noted in the Mediterranean and in the Indian Ocean. But the fact is that the northern fleet, the smallest in the Soviet navy at the end of World War II, is now the biggest-the superfleet of a supernavy...
That pressure is already being applied to Norway, the most exposed country on NATO's northern flank. For the past decade, the Soviet navy has staged big exercises in the Norwegian Sea, making the point that Norway, with no land connection to the rest of NATO, is at the mercy of whichever country rules the waves. Johan Jorgen Hoist, research director of the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute, warns that the Soviets intend "to push their naval defense line outwards to Iceland and the Faeroes," which could turn the Norwegian Sea into what he calls "a Soviet lake...
...remain a plausible deterrent, NATO depends un a strategy of rapid reinforcement in time of crisis. Yet if Norway or Iceland were threatened, it would take an estimated ten days to two weeks for U.S. reinforcements to reach the northern flank, ten to 20 days for Britain's troops, and 30 days for Canada's. That assumes, of course, that they could even reach their destination through waters controlled by the Soviet northern fleet. Thus the real threat posed by Russia's dominance in the northern seas is to NATO's credibility and perhaps...