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...their ships on station and, as the U.S. does, resupply them at sea with the four essential b's-bombs, bullets, beans and black oil. At the same time. Soviet diplomacy has carved out several important auxiliary ports for the fleet along the Mediterranean coasts. Among them are Latakia in Syria and Alexandria and Port Said in Egypt. The Russians, who now sail the western Mediterranean more frequently, have also shown an interest in using the Algerian seaport of Mers-el-Kebir. Last week they got another potential port of call when Malta's Labor Party...
...footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another. When Soviet arms deliveries to replace weapons destroyed in the 1967 war fell behind schedule...
...preserves. To match their new stake in the area, they have increased their Mediterranean fleet to some 50 ships, which thus equals in number, if not in firepower, the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Such ports as Algeria's Mers-el-Kebir, Egypt's Alexandria and Syria's Latakia are filled with souvenir-shopping Soviet sailors these days. So far, only the oil-rich kingdoms of Libya, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states have resisted Russia's advances...
...been for years the NATO domain, of the 50-ship U.S. Sixth Fleet. Now 45 to 55 Soviet ships, including missile-firing destroyers, plus a dozen submarines, patrol the Mediterranean. The Russians supply their ships at sea, sometimes drop into Alexandria, Port Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants of the French navy pull out next year. Sometimes the Soviet ships come...
...political parties. But the Russians themselves are working hard to increase their influence. The main tool is a lavish foreign-aid program, an estimated $500 million Soviet investment split between military aid (MIGs, tanks, rifles) and such projects as the first railroad linking Syria's Mediterranean port of Latakia with the Jezire agriculture district of the northeast. The Soviet embassy, largest in Damascus, is headquarters for a community that includes a 200-man military mission and 300 technicians...