Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people were killed or injured remains a mystery. According to some counts, as many as a third of the surface-to-air and cruise missiles in the arsenal of the Soviet navy's northern fleet went up in smoke. But U.S. officials warned against attaching too much strategic importance to the accident. If an actual conflict came, said a senior Administration Kremlin watcher, the Soviets would "fire what they had on hand...
...careless handling might have triggered the blast. Located near a cluster of naval installations on the Kola Peninsula, Severomorsk serves as a major ammunition depot for the 148 surface ships, nearly 200 submarines, 425 warplanes and one aircraft carrier that are attached to the Soviet Union's northern fleet...
Normally, weapons would not have been stockpiled in such great quantities in one place. But in April the fleet had conducted the largest Soviet naval maneuvers ever in the North Atlantic; the missiles would have played a vital defensive role in the war games. A senior officer in the British Royal Navy says that if the damage estimates are accurate, "the Soviet northern fleet could not put to sea as a viable combat force for some months...
Branson maintains that Laker failed because he bought too many planes too soon and then was battered by the sinking value of the pound against the dollar. A big fleet is not Branson's problem. As of last week Virgin Atlantic consisted of one airplane, a Boeing Branson with a model of his Virgin aircraft...
...moon and the other on the earth. We are both citizens of an emotional continent." Blades' songs, featuring characters as diverse as political policemen, murdered priests and pregnant teenagers, explore exotic territory that is made immediate and familiar by his graceful narrative gifts and by the fleet, conversational translations of the lyrics that he provides on the album's inner cover ("Where do people who disappear go to? Look in the water and in the high grass . . . When do they return? Every time our thoughts bring them back...