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Such reasoning is based on a dangerous fallacy. It assumes that the Middle East is politically a vacuum, that the Russians will not react. This is just not true any more. The Russians have gradually been building up their fleet in the Mediterrancan, contesting American influence in the area more and more seriously...
That is a matter of Jane's semantics-and Soviet intention. There is no doubt that the Soviet fleet has an offensive capability and has been considerably stretching the concept of strategic defense. Soviet submarines appeared in the Indian Ocean for the first time last winter, and only last week the helicopter carrier Moskva turned up in the Mediterranean. That, declared U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, is "visible evidence of Russia's announced intention to be come a modern major offensive sea power...
...Francisco Bay Area rapid-transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula, mining operations in Peru, Australia and Canada, and a fleet of nine super-size ore and oil carriers, to which three new 128,000-ton ships will soon be added...
...messages demanding in all the languages of the Warsaw Pact that the invaders go home. One message scrawled on a wall in Prague read: "Lenin, wake up. Brezhnev has gone mad!" Said another: "Hungarians, go home. Have you not had enough of these things?" Wenceslas Square turned into a fleet of Czechoslovak flags bobbing on a sea of demonstrators, who shouted in the direction of the 20 tanks parked among them: "Russian murderers, go home...
Many shipowners agree with President Manuel Diaz of American Export Isbrandtsen Lines that the Soviet fleet is a "very real threat." Since the Soviet government need not show a profit on its ships, goes the argument, Communist ships could easily cut rates and drive free-world ships out of business. For their part, the Russians say that they are anxious to join the rate-setting conferences that they once condemned as "capitalist cartels." "I see no reason why we should not operate like other shipping men," says George Maslov, London-based boss of Russia's Anglo-Soviet Shipping...