Word: fleetly
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...palpable sign of the quid pro quo exacted by the Soviets for its Black Sea fleet can be seen on any map of the Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
With all the hoopla of the reopening, however, there are some who feel that the canal will never again attain the importance it had before 1967. Even before the closing, tanker-fleet owners had begun building giant superships of 100,000 tons or more that could not navigate the canal. In 1967, fully 74% of the world's tanker fleet could traverse the canal; today only 27% of the tanker fleet can use it. Thus, though Cairo last week almost doubled the tolls from what they were in 1967, Egyptian hopes of collecting $450 million a year from...
...best record in the league: overwhelming strength up front with Center Wes Unseld and Forward Elvin Hayes, and a brilliant backcourt in shifty Playmaker Kevin Porter and Phil Chenier. The Warriors will counter with Rick Barry, the league's second-leading scorer, and a crew of fleet young players including Rookie of the Year Keith Wilkes. They will need all the speed they can muster, plus a sensational performance from Barry, to wear down Washington...
Such scrambles ashore have been interpreted as possible rehearsals for a U.S. invasion of Middle East oilfields in the event of petroleum "strangulation." Sixth Fleet commanders deny that the exercises are anything more than routine. They point out that the amphibious force, after all, is only large enough to "go ashore to protect an embassy" in case of trouble...
...involved in what our State Department does," says Rear Admiral Forrest Petersen, Task Force 60's commander, when asked about the fleet's potential role in any possible U.S. action against the Middle East oilfields. "We simply stand ready to follow orders." Petersen has no doubt that with the amount of weaponry now assembled in the Mediterranean, a pitched battle between U.S. and Soviet fleets, which no one expects, would be awesome in cost. "A conflict would be pretty bloody, no question about that. An awful lot of people would get hurt," he says. "But I am convinced...