Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warsaw Pact nations, has a range of about 75 miles. Its immediate predecessor, the FROG-7, could go only 40 miles. Armed with the more accurate SS-21s, the Syrians would now be able to reach targets far inside Israel, as well as ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the coast of Lebanon...
...Reagan Administration. In Washington's view, Nicaragua and its four-year-old Sandinista government have emerged as a new and threatening variety of Marxist-Leninist rule on the mainland of the Americas. The Reagan Administration has not hesitated to signal its concern by military means: a fleet of U.S. warships has been conducting "readiness exercises" off Nicaraguan shores, while 3,500 U.S. troops have assembled across the border in Honduras for the largest series of war games ever held in Central America. Most important, the U.S. is continuing to provide covert support to thousands of Nicaraguan insurgents, known...
...creatures were carnivores, like the ferocious Tyrannosaurus, which seems to have feasted on its fellow dinosaurs. Others, like the long-necked Brontosaurus, the archetypal dinosaur of cartoons, were gentle, browsing vegetarians. In spite of their comparatively small brains, dinosaurs were not dumb, floundering brutes. Deinonychus, for instance, was a fleet, two-footed creature with scimitar-like claws on its hind legs, grasping hands and dagger-sharp teeth. It apparently hunted in packs, in the manner of wolves. Stegoceras perhaps employed the thick dome on its skull in sexual combat, as an elk uses its horns. Dinosaurs may even have...
Thus, unlike West Germany, which was admitted into NATO in the '50s, Japan was never asked until recently to take an active role in her own defense. American air and troop bases on the islands, and the Navy's 7th Fleet, were considered adequate protection. For the U.S. to request a rapid reversal of this situation is somewhat hypocritical and more than a little unrealistic...
...SOMETHING must be done soon, for reason existent before the shooting and only more pressing now. The past two decades have seen an enormous buildup of Soviet power in the Far East. Since 1970, the Soviet Pacific Fleet has increased its total tonnage from one million to 1.6 million, while the 7th Fleet's tonnage has decreased from one million to 600,000. The Soviets have stationed Backfire bombers and $$-20s--the same type of nuclear missile threatening Europe--within range of Japan. In addition, Russian troops are in possession of several small northern Japanese islands. Finally, the Soviet...