Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider a more drastic plan: military intervention. The Pentagon moved 25 Phantoms into a U.S. Air Force base at Incirlik, Turkey, where six 130 transports were already standing by to aid in a possible evacuation. The U.S. also ordered an aircraft carrier and supporting ships of the Sixth Fleet to a destination within reach of Jordan. Meanwhile Israel worked out a contingency plan that called for the use of helicopters and heliborne troops...
Halfway down Fleet Street, London's Newspaper Row, stands an oasis named El Vino. There, over vintage wines and aged whisky, reporters and editors swap the stories that tough British libel laws discourage them from printing. One of the most durable topics over the past few years has been the flamboyant personality and liberal accounting methods of Captain Robert Maxwell, 46, who built tiny Pergamon Press into a major scientific publishing house. Among financial editors there was a common conviction that the Czech-born publisher, who won a military cross while fighting with the British in World...
...last week. "The editors and publishers are highly competent, and the long-run future looks good if we can get through this difficult time." Still, says Steinberg, the next time he tries to acquire a British company, he will be sure to tune in on the talk at a Fleet Street...
Despite his fervent pan-Arabism, however, Gaddafi is careful to maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
...year later it struck the Iranian town of Rasht on the South Shore of the Caspian Sea. From there, it jumped to Astrakhan, a Soviet city of 500,000. Now it has burst out in two more areas: Alexandria and Port Said and-after a visit by the Soviet fleet to the two Egyptian cities-the Soviet Black Sea port of Odessa...