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Lukin has encouraged Yeltsin to take a strong stand in its dispute with Ukraine over control of the Black Sea Fleet, said Lloyd, a former British journalist of the year...
Lloyd said that the splintering of the Soviet Union has created frictions between the new republics. "In a single stroke of the pen," said Lloyd, "Nikita Kruschev signed over the fleet to Ukrainian control. Back then, it didn't matter...
...Force, which spends millions on its fleet of 43 planes for the VIPs, relishes the chance to curry favor with its sources of money and influence, including Congressmen and Senators, whose taste for junketeering is legendary. The White House advance teams, the Secret Service -- which deploys hundreds of agents on some presidential trips -- are made up of young men and women who are thrilled by the adventure. Concocted and hyped crowds roar approval. Add it all up, and a President gets the feeling he rides with the gods. It is an illusion...
Just like Ciavaglia, Martins is blessed with fleet feet and impeccable stick skills...
...artillery pieces, 800 warships. Russian President Boris Yeltsin argued for central control over all this too, but Ukraine, Moldavia and Azerbaijan insisted that they had to have their own national armies. Most Soviet naval bases were in Russia, but Ukraine was quick to claim the Black Sea Fleet, which had its home port in Ukraine's Sevastopol. Without warning, Russia ordered the newest aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to its port of Murmansk. Yeltsin later defended the transfer, noting that the Black Sea Fleet was "historically Russian." But he grudgingly conceded that Ukraine is entitled to "a share...