Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only specific proposal to ease NATO tensions is the U.S.'s MLF concept of a 25-vessel fleet of Polaris-missile-equipped merchant ships, manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. This is aimed at reducing the resentment of the allies against U.S. veto power over the use of nuclear weapons and at checking the proliferation of such weapons. The MLF missiles would cover Communist airfields and medium-range missile sites that now threaten Central Europe...
Invasion or Revolution? But again the U.S. does not really expect Red China to launch invasions, believes that Peking has a reasonably healthy respect for the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the U.S. air forces stationed at island bases throughout the Pacific. China can obviously continue to rely on subversion and revolution, methods with which it is doing extremely well. This, rather than the Chinese bomb or even the Chinese army, is the basic challenge...
...that the European nations involved have shown very little enthusiasm for a joint weapons system in which the Americans exercise veto power. As a result, a clause may be introduced into the treaty agreement which will allow the Europeans to buy out the American veto. Control over the nuclear fleet might then pass to a federation of nations, Etzioni speculated...
This federation, he charged, would actually be a committee in which voting power would be based on monetary contributions to the MLF. Thus West Germany, which has paid 67 per cent of the cost of maintaining the fleet, would exercise do facts control over a tactical nuclear force...
Five-star admirals don't even necessarily fade away. Presiding over the 25th annual pistol match between San Francisco's Olympic Club and the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda, retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just...