Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger denied that a superpower confrontation was likely. But Moscow once more alerted airborne divisions in a show of strength, and both the Soviet Mediterranean fleet and the U.S. Sixth Fleet dispatched combat vessels toward the island. Kissinger insisted that the U.S. and Russia were not heading toward a clash, explaining that the ship movements are normal precautions when war breaks out in the area...
Actually Ecevit's government had already decided on an invasion. Even as Sisco sat with the Prime Minister on the midnight before the landings took place, the Turkish fleet was approaching Kyrenia and pilots were manning their planes. With Turkish passions for action running so high, Ecevit was certain that his government would fall if it backed down. Moreover he sensed that no country was eager to recognize Sampson as President of Cyprus and thus no major power would complain too much if Sampson was toppled...
Parkhurst expects stiff opposition to the bill from a broad spectrum of transportation concerns, including the railroads, the American Trucking Associations, Inc., the Teamsters and especially the large fleet trucking companies. Yet he says he hopes that the independent truckers acquired enough national standing last winter to be able to put the bill through on their...
...keyboard man with Miles Davis from 1963 to 1968, Hancock long ago made his mark in the jazz community. When he stepped out on his own, it was to make a series of innovative LPs for Blue Note and Warner Bros, that combined an almost impressionist sense of harmony, fleet melodic lines and sprinting tempos...
...economic blow has fallen hardest on New England; nearly half of the 74,000 jobs wiped out or transferred by the cutbacks were located in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The closings of the Newport Naval Station and Quonset Point Naval Air Complex and the exodus of a 30-destroyer fleet have lowered the personal income of Rhode Island's citizens by $307 million a year-a loss about equal to the economic damage wreaked in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky by this spring's tornadoes. In addition, Rhode Island Governor Philip Noel complains that the state has been saddled...