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...invitation to Peking, the Chinese refused to attend. Apparently, they could not accept his precondition that while in Bucharest they refrain from polemics against other Communist nations. Foreign guests were whisked about in gleaming black Mercedes-Benz limousines, which have replaced Soviet-made Chaikas as the official car. The fleet serves as a reminder that Ceauşescu has made West Germany his second-largest trading partner after Russia. Breaking with Communist tradition, Ceauşescu allowed newsmen, including one Mao-suited Chinese reporter, to sit in the gallery and witness the full proceedings. Delegates soon found...
...most people, the Golden Greeks are Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos, the argonauts who have built fortunes of $500 million each and cut a swath in international society. The two old rivals still struggle to outdo each other in size of fleet and fortune, and are now engaged in a fierce competition to win a Greek government contract to build a huge shipping and industrial complex. Though they get most of the publicity, they are only the two most conspicuous men in a large group of Greek shipping magnates, most of whom are known in nautical circles as the "other...
...Greek shipowners today possess the world's largest merchant fleet -3,065 ships totaling almost 25 million tons. As a group, they are the biggest spenders in the world's shipyards. More than 200 vessels, including 43 supertankers, are on order or being built for Greek owners. The Greeks set up shop wherever they can do business, in London, Manhattan, Lausanne or Beirut. They fly the most convenient flag -Liberian, Panamanian, Cypriot-but they remain Greek wherever they go. Their enterprise has been a major force in lifting the postwar economies of shipbuilding nations. In British shipyards alone...
...Pueblo incident, the defects in communications were evident even before the vessel sailed. Pueblo's electronic-spying mission was assigned a minimum-risk factor. Neither the Pacific Fleet Command in Hawaii nor the regional command in Japan was aware that Radio Pyongyang had already threatened retaliation for what it called "provocative" acts in the Sea of Japan off North Korea's east coast...
...case of the EC-121, the difficulty was as much one of command as communications. Flying under the operational control of the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ-1), the Navy plane was more on its own than it could have realized. According to the Pike report, VQ-1 "lost all effective operational control over the aircraft. Army, Air Force and Navy units monitoring the flight of the EC-121 appeared to assume operational control of the aircraft -and if they did not, no one had operational control." The monitoring units detected the aircraft threatening...