Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel. Unilateral troop withdrawals from Europe, as McGovern recommends, might encourage the Russians to be more aggressive in the Middie East. Recently, McGovern pledged to end all aid to the Greek colonels; the Nixon Administration, on the other hand, is planning to build a home port for the Sixth Fleet near Athens. American Jews who visit Israel read papers singing the praise of Nixon...
...starting in the fall of 1974. Marking denied that his nationalized line was prodded into the deal by the British government in order to expand the market for engines made by the government-owned Rolls-Royce. Even so, BEA is not likely for many years to phase out its fleet of British-made Trident jets and switch wholesale to the TriStar...
...that Egypt might some day reconsider and order Soviet sailors home too, the Russians reportedly are seeking additional port privileges elsewhere along the Mediterranean littoral. Such ports have a variety of uses; the U.S., although it operates a "naval train" from Norfolk to the Mediterranean to replenish the Sixth Fleet, also maintains naval facilities in Spain, Italy and, commencing fairly soon, Greece...
Such ports are essential to the Soviets because their Mediterranean squadron, like the Sixth Fleet, is a permanent strategic force, not merely a factor in the Egypt-Israel confrontation. Thus if Moscow allows the fleet to be displaced, the Russians would lose face-and power-everywhere in the Mediterranean...
Inside every blue-jeaned, knap-sacked youth who tours Europe on the cheap there lurks the spirit of the sybarite. At least that is the hope of officials of the Italian Line, which has a fleet of four luxury ships plying the Atlantic. The line is putting all its European sailings on sale for the sandaled student...