Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaving Maximilian to die before a Mexican firing squad. In 1903, after Germany, Britain and Italy decreed a blockade of Venezuela to force the dictator of the day to pay claims due their citizens, President Theodore Roosevelt warned the Europeans away with a threat of intervention by the U.S. fleet...
...NAVY. Of the Navy's 667,000 men, only a fraction are presently involved in either Viet Nam or the Dominican Republic. Some 27,000 of the Seventh Fleet's 64,000 men are on duty in the South China Sea and 9,900 men of the Second Fleet's complement of 20,000 are stationed in the Caribbean. Elsewhere, the Navy has the Sixth Fleet, with 50 ships, 200 planes and 25,000 men in the Mediterranean, and the First Fleet, with 90 ships, 420 planes and 60,000 men in the Pacific...
...radarscope of a U.S. warship, the coastline and the fishing fleet blend into a single, miasmic blur, and no technique other than close search has yet been devised to distinguish Communist from honest fisherman...
...treasury could support them. Recently Sihanouk took to the radio in a rage over the sad state of Cambodian education (national literacy rate: 30%). Snookie demanded the immediate establishment of five new universities, including an Institute of Oceanography (despite the fact that Cambodia has only a tiny fishing fleet and a piddling navy). The Education Ministry dutifully drew up plans and asked for 385 million riels ($11 million). Sihanouk snapped back that the project should cost no more than 2,000,000 riels. Fifty-seven thousand dollars for five universities? With typical second thought, he kicked in a kindly...
...months in Egypt. Last week reliable reports said that the missiles were loaded onto a freighter in Alexandria, and there the mystery begins. One version has it that the ship never left port. Another maintains that the freighter sailed but was turned back by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet that constantly patrol the seas around Cyprus. A third version insists that the freighter docked at Boghaz, the new port built by the Greek Cypriots near Famagusta (TIME, March 26), but was not unloaded because Washington, opposing any escalation of arms in the Cyprus dispute, prevailed upon Athens...