Word: gunboats
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...since the Bismarck has there been such a sea hunt. In the teeth of a gale that whipped the azure Mediterranean into an ash-gray cauldron of 20-foot waves, five Israeli-manned gunboats scooted to Haifa last week on a 3,000-mile dash from the northern French port of Cherbourg. At various points, they were tracked by French reconnaissance planes, an R.A.F. Canberra from Malta, Soviet tankers, the radar forests of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, television cameramen and even Italian fishermen. From a distance, the world watched with emotions ranging from amusement to outrage. In a twist...
...Wide Berth. On Christmas Eve, as they trudged along the quays to midnight Mass, Cherbourgeois observed that the gunboat crews were busily stowing supplies. Some young Israelis were out scouring the city for stocks of everything from cold tablets and vitamin-C supplements to American cigarettes. Some of them, with broad grins, explained that they were leaving to celebrate Christmas in Israel...
...film-making talents on such diverse subjects as The Manchurian Candidate, The Fixer and The Train. However the stories vary, Frankenheimer remains obsessed by the qualities of valor. Even his little-seen comedy, The Extraordinary Seaman, has a ghostly hero condemned to walk the decks of a rotting gunboat until he is able to execute a single act of military courage...
Gruening's years with the Nation in the early twenties came at an exciting time. The magazine under Gruening battled against the power monopolies and gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, and for Irish Independence and American recognition of the revolutionary regime in Mexico. Those years are still very much alive in Gruening's memory, and his descriptions of the Nation's crusades of that era come rapid and flowing...
...notion of legitimacy in world affairs has begun to fade. Primitive diplomacy-or undiplomacy-is increasingly back in style, partly because the world's two great powers are locked in a nuclear stalemate. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union is free to simply send in a gunboat to sort out an awkwardness. Modern communications link the world so closely together that a raw display of power in Pyongyang, for example, may produce severe reverberations in Moscow almost instantly. In addition, even small nations today have enough firepower of their own to blow an unfriendly gunboat...