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...store and stocked it with items priced just above wholesale levels. The bus makes ten stops a week in low-income neighborhoods and housing projects, and the police department sends along an escort for security. So promising is the innovation that there is already talk of outfitting a whole fleet of buses to bring the bacon home to Denver's elderly customers...
Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...
Vladivostok is the home port of the Soviet Pacific fleet. The harbor freezes in the winter but is kept open by icebreakers. Naval war games have frequently been staged offshore. That fact, combined with the heavy concentration of vessels in its harbor and the presence of a missile base, explains why the city has been out of bounds to foreigners...
...Yale beats our Harvard fleet, it's that cellar...
...helped by the evidence that the commandos have not abandoned terrorism as a tactic. Just as the Rabat summit ended, three fedayeen were caught crossing into Israel from Lebanon; they were shot to death after an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis reacted predictably by dispatching a fleet of small warships up the Mediterranean coast. The boats stood three miles offshore from a Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh in Lebanon and bombarded it, killing five Palestinians and injuring...