Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the sudden death of Gamal Abdel Nasser dramatically diverted world attention from the President's journey, Nixon's message was far from muted. While with Pope Paul at the Vatican, he observed incongruously that he was about to visit the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-"the mightiest military force that exists in the world on any ocean." The Pope gently raised a sensitive topic, expressing his hope for a prompt peace in Viet Nam. Then, in a ten-minute talk to seminarians at the Vatican's North American College, Nixon used the word "power" no fewer...
Nixon received word of Nasser's death earlier in the week, just after he had been ferried by helicopter from Rome to the Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier Saratoga during his Mediterranean tour (see THE NATION). The President, Foreign Affairs Adviser Henry Kissinger and other aides closeted themselves in a captain's suite aboard the carrier to evaluate the news. The White House group knew almost nothing about Nasser's possible successors. A list of candidates, accompanied by dossiers, was flashed to the Mediterranean via Saratoga's two radio links to Washington...
Afterward, while the spectator fleet blared horns and shot flares into the darkening sky, the Intrepid crew gleefully doused Picker's bald head with champagne. Tradition also dictated that they heave him in the drink-which they did with dispatch, thus producing the memorable sight of the two skippers treading water and shaking hands. Yet the end of the 21st cup defense was only a beginning. What used to be a private competition between the U.S. and its English-speaking cousins (Canada, Britain, Australia) is becoming an event of Olympian proportions. As of last week, a tentative line...
Since the Austrian line is an ardent suitor, the canny Swiss are exacting a stiff price. As a dowry, the Austrians would have to supply the combined line with a fleet of nine jets to be bought by AA with a $76 million loan backed by the Vienna'government. A bill guaranteeing the loan has been introduced in the Austrian Parliament, but not yet passed. Once that considerable detail is taken care of, negotiations are expected to move ahead in earnest, and the two lines could begin to practice their special kind of togetherness by April...
...missiles in Egypt. Aeroflot, which aims to become a global carrier, now touches down in 57 countries, compared to 92 for U.S. international airlines. The Soviet navy is second in size only to the U.S. Navy and, as U.S. admirals constantly complain, boasts far newer vessels. Moscow's fleet of some 2,600 merchant ships is second to none. In the 95 capitals where Moscow maintains diplomatic representation (up from 71 in 1965), sophisticated commercial attaches are replacing the ill-mannered salesman in the ill-fitting suit who for years was the Soviet stereotype and the object of scorn...