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...painting, which consists of a series of miniature scenes, none more than 16 inches high, portrays a battle between a fleet of Minoan ships and an enemy flotilla off a coastal city. Following their victory, the Minoans land, sack the city and make off with its valuables. The battle is vividly recreated; men can be seen falling from sinking ships and drowning, women jump in despair off towers, and soldiers lead away looted cattle and sheep. In other panels, the conquerors are welcomed by the inhabitants of two other cities. This activity takes place against a landscape populated by lions...
...core of the problem seems to be stubborn residual racism among the Navy's "middle management." All too frequently, Zumwalt's pleas for equality have fallen on deaf ears, from skippers all the way down to petty officers. Addressing a flotilla of admirals and generals at the Pentagon in the wake of the three outbreaks, Zumwalt pulled no punches in blaming his subordinates. "Uncomprehending response or response which lacks commitment from the heart-no matter how correct-is essentially obstructionist," said the Chief of Naval Operations. "Just as obstructionist is a man who puts an order...
...favorable portents, the summit is certain to bring very hard bargaining and conceivably even ultimate disappointment for the U.S. Furthermore, over the summit lies the danger of some accident-the bombing of a Soviet freighter in Haiphong, perhaps, or a confrontation between U.S. warships and the growing Russian flotilla off the North Vietnamese coast. "It could still come unstuck," worried a White House aide shortly before Nixon's departure...
While the ground war was a strictly Vietnamese affair, U.S. and North Vietnamese forces traded shot and shell on another front-the sea. Since the invasion began, a flotilla of more than a score of U.S. destroyers and guided-missile frigates and cruisers had been shelling North Vietnamese positions north and south of the DMZ. Then, last week, the North Vietnamese responded. At least three enemy MIGs swept over the destroyer U.S.S. Higbee. During two passes, they landed a bomb square atop the ship's magazine, causing an explosion that blew out a portion of the superstructure...
...which may be followed shortly by another with Syria, is a departure from the former Soviet practice of dealing with the Arab states primarily through Cairo. It also gives the Russians a desired window on the Persian Gulf. Kosygin had scarcely taken off for home when a Soviet naval flotilla dropped anchor in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on a goodwill visit...