Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be at the sufferance of its Muslim opponents and Soviet-armed Syria. There was little left for Washington to do but announce a timetable for withdrawal of the Marines from what had become Mission Impossible. They were to be loaded onto the ships of the Sixth Fleet "within 30 days," starting last weekend...
Grace deFriers won the 800 meter race in a swift 2 11.50 Busby ran into first place in the 200 meters in 25 82 seconds And Wiley out-lought Margaret Wynne of Yale in the 3000 meters with a fleet...
...taxi driver said that it is more profitable to work for a company fleet. The owner-operators have to live in their cabs for 45 hours a week just to clear a profit he said. "With a cab company, most of our expenses are taken care...
...matter how sweeping Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's vision of a navy that can "protect state interests on the seas and oceans," his fleet cannot transcend the limitations of geography . Reports that some 40 freighters and tankers were trapped in ice-clogged Arctic seas last fall underscore the restraints that the absence of warm-water ports has imposed on Russian dreams of being a maritime power. Two of the Soviet Union's four fleets can gam access to the sea only through strategic waterways that are not under Soviet control, the Baltic Sea and the Dardanelles...
...American civilians in Beirut who wished to leave. Broadcast over the Voice of America, the news sent hundreds of Americans, suitcases in hand, to the seafront British embassy and waiting helicopters. Over the course of two days, some 1,100 people were airlifted to ships of the Sixth Fleet, bound for Cyprus. About half were American citizens, the others were Europeans and Asians. The British evacuated 400 civilians, and the Italians prepared to remove others. Margaret Cummings, originally from Queens, N.Y., has spent the past 22 years in Lebanon. "I stayed through the civil war, and it was nothing like...