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...East, particularly, he demanded that the U.S. ''move quickly to establish a rough balance of military power.'' By that he meant that the U.S. should have ''major Air Force components operating from the former Israeli airfields in the Sinai and a new Fifth Fleet stationed in the Indian Ocean...
...Carbone has a fleet of behemoths to lead the way. The Brown offensive line averages about 6-ft., 3-ins. and 240 lbs, with senior captain John Sinnott (6 ft. 7 ins. and 270 lbs.) a specialist in rearranging profiles...
...This would buy two more attack submarines, one more destroyer armed with the devastatingly accurate AEGIS guided-missile weapons system, a landing ship for the Marines and two oilers. The oiler shortage typifies the Navy's plight. While at least 21 oilers are needed to keep the fleet steaming, only 16 are available and ten of these were commissioned before the end of World War II. Mines are also scarce, and torpedo stockpiles are so low that there are not even enough to arm all U.S. attack subs for two patrols...
...better luck closer to home, in the jokey, hokey bacchanal of The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks or the sly ironies of The Disco Strangler (a collaboration with String Player Don Felder) and King of Hollywood, in which a hard-hustling mogul is nailed neatly in two fleet lines: "He's just another power junky/ Just another silk-scarf monkey...
...West Germany's sleek Porsche 928, priced at $33,220 and voted 1978 Car of the Year by European auto writers, is bought mainly by dentists (the country's highest income group), business advisers, doctors, tax consultants and real estate dealers. (The world's largest Porsche fleet-4,000-is in Los Angeles...