Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greece is critical to U.S. domination of the Middle East," Chomsky said. He noted the recent installation of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, "America's big stick," in Athens as evidence of the importance of Greece to U.S. interests...
...instead what Exxon's per-share dividends were. Baze did not know, and Jackson made a grandstand show of phoning a Washington stockbroker for the information. Last week an overwrought writer of a letter to the New York Times accused Exxon of "treason" for not supplying the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Middle East
...class pack more punch than anything comparable in size in the U.S. fleet. Norman Polmar, U.S. editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, estimates that the Soviets lead the world in antiship missiles, introduction of new technologies to warships and numbers of attack submarines. Last year the Russians launched their first aircraft carrier. At 45,000 tons, it is about half as large as the big U.S. carriers like the nuclear-propelled Nimitz. It will be able to bring helicopters and vertical-takeoff and -landing aircraft to the scene of a battle but lacks the catapult needed to launch fixed-wing...
Steady Improvements. Meanwhile, the U.S. has trimmed its active fleet to 174 major surface combat ships. Nonetheless, Polmar believes that the U.S. Navy still leads the Soviets in a number oif critical areas. Among them: carrier aviation (1,120 fighters and bombers aboard 14 attack carriers), nuclear-propelled surface ships and the ability to refuel and resupply ships at sea. This last capability permits the U.S. to keep a ship at sea for a longer period of time than the Russians, though Polmar expects the Soviets to catch up within a year...
...ever received on his frequent travels abroad. Plainly enjoying the effusive Latin welcome, he traded warm abrazos with Castro, and waved continuously on the 25-mile motorcade into Havana from the back of a pale gray open Zil convertible that had been shipped from Moscow, along with a fleet of black Chaika limousines...