Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday morning they were back on station in the central Mediterranean north of Libya: the carriers America and Coral Sea, 14 escort warships and two other support vessels. Once again, as in the clashes around the Gulf of Sidra three weeks ago, the flattops were prepared to launch their 160 fighters and bombers against targets in the desert country of Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. But this time there was no pretext that the exercise was to assert the right of free passage in international waters...
...across the street. "The President trusts Jim," shrugged a Treasury executive. Just a few blocks away at the beleaguered NASA a high official declared, "Without the President's unshakable faith that we can still do the job in space we would have been destroyed by now." Off in the Mediterranean on board ships and carriers of the Sixth Fleet, the words spoken by Reagan during last month's Gulf of Sidra incident were like a surge of adrenaline. Talking of the fleet's commander, Vice Admiral Frank Kelso, the President said, "The man knows what he's doing...
...suddenly, for millions of American tourists, this is chiefly the season for caution in making travel plans. In 1986, in sharp contrast to the overseas-travel surge of a year ago, Americans and their sought-after dollars are making themselves scarce in many parts of Western Europe and the Mediterranean. The phones of travel agents are as busy as ever, but many of the callers now want to change their vacation plans. Some are canceling their trips abroad entirely. Others are choosing more circuitous means and routes to reach their destinations, rather than having to pass through airports in Rome...
...apprehension over travel to Europe and the Mediterranean is a direct result of the recent rash of bloody attacks directed against U.S. citizens in Italy and West Germany, of rioting in Egypt and of random bombings in France. Last week travelers had further cause to be spooked by the harsh words and bellicose gestures flying between the U.S. and Libya. Reasons other than the terrorism scare, such as a sharp decline in the value of the U.S. dollar abroad and an abundance of cheap gasoline at home, are also involved in the shuffle of itineraries. Even so, says Sam Massell...
Pentagon sources said the U.S. 6th Fleet remained "at a high state of readiness," steaming in the central Mediterranean north of the Libyan coast. But the sources added that the fleet, led by two aircraft carriers, had not received any orders to prepare for combat...