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Force That Exists. In a sense the restraint aspect of Admiral Holloway's mission got more punditry last week-not to mention frustration, sneers, even mirth-than the greater fact of Admiral Holloway's great strength. But in a week of mixed-up and shifting developments in Washington, Moscow, the Middle East and the U.N., it was Admiral Holloway's show of force-restrained, not brandished-that was the single most important point about the whole Middle East can-of-worms crisis, simply because the force was there...
...elements of Admiral Holloway's power: 6,100 marines and 3,100 Army airborne troops, installed on a secure beachhead equipped to shoot anything from obsolete Mi rifles to atomic-rocket projectiles; the 76-ship, 35,000-man Sixth Fleet offshore, whose Skyraiders could take an A-bomb from Beirut to Moscow; the Air Force Tactical Air Command's 200-plane composite task force-Douglas B66 and Martin 6-57 light jet bombers. North American F-iooD fighter-bombers and McDonnell F-IOI fighters-at nearby Adana, Turkey, an atomic-and conventional-armed reminder of the mighty, miles...
Says Admiral Holloway just as flatly: "There is outside aid and there is infiltration from without here, but it would not appear to me that Nasser will mount and launch any kind of formal intervention in Lebanon. Nor do I think the Soviet Union will intervene. I think there will not be a third world war arising out of this situation...
...Lord Plushbottom." Not the least of the elements of the power that exists in the Mideast is Admiral Holloway himself, a "black-shoe sailor," (i.e., no airman), whose square, salt-cured features are often belied by a suave, diplomatic air that sometimes spills over into pomposity. In civvies he sports a Malacca cane. He is something of a connoisseur of wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command...
...also a fact that Holloway's most loyal admirers are those who have served him longest or worked with him most closely. Reason: Holloway, veteran of 40 able and often illustrious years in the Navy, is first, last and all the time a thoroughgoing Navy...