Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...American destroyer," said the signal officer. "It always glues itself to us as soon as we pass through these narrows." Sure enough, the Dzerzhinsky had no sooner passed Istanbul when a Sixth Fleet destroyer, the U.S.S. Ricketts, took position alongside. Surveillance was so close that the exasperated captain of the Dzerzhinsky finally flashed a message: "Sir, this is not Broadway. Please find a safer place for your promenade...
Since 1964, however, the U.S. has increasingly had to share its mare nostrum with a constantly growing Russian fleet. Today the two forces are very nearly equal. The Sixth Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Isaac C. Kidd Jr. (who will shortly move upward to become head of the Naval Material Command and be replaced by Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller), consists of 45 ships, including three aircraft carriers, along with four submarines, 200 planes and 25,000 men. Under Vice Admiral V.N. Leonenkov, the Soviet force, an arm of the Black Sea fleet, consists of 40 to 60 ships...
...minutes before flight time, for example, stand a good chance of missing their plane if it is scheduled to depart from a distant gate in the new South Concourse wing. To carry the aged and infirm down that seemingly endless corridor, Hopkins International has put into service a small fleet of motorized carts...
...Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, who is an uncompromising defender of the F14. Zumwalt argued that the new fighter is essential to U.S. sea defense because 1) it is a launching platform for the Navy's air-to-air Phoenix missile, the key to future fleet protection against enemy aircraft, and 2) no other Navy plane will be a match for the Soviets' newest interceptor, the MIG-23 Foxbat. In addition, Navy men point out, advanced models of the F-14 will use the same engine as the Air Force's F-15 fighter, which...