Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planning for Detroit began almost a year ago. Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rudolph Rauch assembled a group to arrange the complex logistics that convention coverage demands. The swift movement of staffers, information and film required the hiring of 22 messengers and a fleet of 21 cars, as well as the installation in TIME'S pressroom in Cobo Hall of 50 telephones, two telex machines and a link to our computer in Manhattan. Other newsroom amenities: 24 desks, 38 typewriters, six pairs of binoculars and-for the fortunate-a pair of sofas...
Until now, U.S. ships on station in the Indian Ocean have been fed by supply lines stretching to Subic Bay in the Philippines, about 3,600 miles to the east, or to the Mediterranean Sea, some 3,200 miles to the northwest. Meanwhile, an imposing Soviet fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will...
DIED. Hilmar Reksten, 82, once one of the largest operators of independent oil tankers in the world; of cancer; in Bergen, Norway. He parlayed a modest 1929 investment in a cargo steamer into a tanker fleet worth $600 million. His fortunes ebbed when the 1973 Arab oil embargo caused a worldwide slump and left eleven of his twelve supertankers lying idle. In 1979 he was acquitted on charges of evading income taxes on $89 million in foreign earnings. Ironically, he made this year's Guinness Book of World Records for paying a larger percentage of his annual income...
...evade the Imperial invasion, but Han, Leia, Chewbaca and C-3PO stay behind until Darth Vader's black robes nearly envelop them. They then take to the dilapidated and constantly malfunctioning Millenium Falcon, in which they escape from their crumbling arctic fortress only to be pursued relentlessly by a fleet of Imperial star cruisers...
...advanced training. Graduates of these institutes are much respected by their peers in the West. Says a West German defense expert: "In theory, strategy and tactics, Soviet military training is top grade." Especially admired are the senior commanders, such as Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 62, the Chief of Staff, and Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, 70, Commander of the Navy. Says Kremlinologist John Erickson, director of defense studies at the University of Edinburgh: "They are very able, very tough and on a par with the best military brains in the West...