Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature of the action we should take in such an event." Actually, the U.S. and Britain already have their own separate stand-by plans for stepping in and stopping any new Arab-Israel war-plans ranging from economic sanctions to the deployment of British troops and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, with or without U.N. approval. Last week the U.S. and Britain agreed to coordinate these separate plans in a common...
Norwegians care little how the herring ends its days, be it Matjes, marinated, soaked in sour cream, smoked, baked or fried. But they cannot abide it poached. Like others before them (Britons, Icelanders, Germans), Russia's herring fleet made this discovery the hard way last week...
After first ascertaining that the Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small...
...Russians were not cowed. The rest of the Soviet fleet moved in and dipped nets into Norwegian waters. The warships sped out again, fired a few more shots across Russian bows, steamed resolutely back to port with another 10 ships, including the 7,000-ton Tambov, the Soviet fleet's mother ship. While 800 Soviet crewmen-relieved to get ashore after being cooped up for four months aboard ship-loafed and chatted with the people of Aalesund, Norwegian authorities got two of the 15 skippers to admit they had been poaching, then fired off a strong protest to Moscow...
...indeed fortunate that America has the world's greatest weightlifter, for this proves to the world beyond a doubt that the United States is economically powerful. And Rev. Bob Richards' ability in the polevault has an obvious relationship to American development to guided missiles, while the fate of the fleet rests entirely upon the well-groomed kick of our finny friends at Yale and Ohio State...