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...women sipping vodka on an ocean liner in the Caribbean. Crates of computers being unloaded in Hong Kong harbor. A cruise ship offering three- month tours with elegant accommodations. These are not the images people conjure up when they think of the Soviet menace. But the Soviet Union's fleet of about 2,500 merchant ships, now the world's sixth largest, has been invading both cargo and cruise markets around the world, underbidding competitors by 40% and more. In the past two decades, the Soviet Union has doubled the number of its ships and tripled the tonnage...
...Soviet cruise fleet now ranks third worldwide, with 36 vessels of 1,000 tons or more, compared with the U.S. fleet, which has dwindled to six. Sailing from Genoa, Tilbury (England) and Rotterdam, the liners offer rates 15% to 20% below those of most Western ships. Travelers give Soviet cruises high marks. A group from Lisieux, France, who sailed the Norwegian fjords on the Leonid Brezhnev in May, was enchanted by everything from crew members, who danced "Russian," to inexpensive vodka, and frog's legs for dinner...
That situation may have been aggravated by the increasing exposure of the Chinese people to an ever wider array of influences from abroad. One week there is talk of a Disney-style amusement park for southern Peking. The next, General Motors delivers a fleet of 20 Cadillac limousines to be used by visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley...
...changing nature of the nation's strategic defense machine, TIME Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst sampled day-to-day operations in each of the Triad's components. He dived with the Trident submarine Henry M. Jackson off the Bahamas as the vessel made final preparations to join the Pacific Fleet, strapped himself into the cramped confines of a B-52 on a simulated bombing strike out of South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base and inspected a Minuteman training launch capsule, also in South Dakota. Van Voorst's report...
...Britain, however, the Civil Aviation Authority ordered a more wide-ranging inspection of the engines, grounding about 10% of the country's passenger fleet and causing flight delays of up to seven hours at the beginning of last week. British Airways announced that it had found engine problems similar to the one in the Manchester accident in four of its twelve Boeing 737s, but the airline's officials angrily denied an FAA allegation that the engine cracks were caused by operating the motors at excessively high temperatures. Still, many passengers are nervous. "People are making requests to sit near emergency...