Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparations include cancellation of the departure by one carrier from the Mediterranean for home and scuttling plans for a liberty call by a second carrier, the sources said...
...Sixth Fleet now has the carrier America under way in the northern Mediterranean off the coast of Italy. The carrier Coral Sea, which had been expecting to sail for home shortly, was in port yesterday in Malaga, Spain, but sources said it might get under way as early as today...
...officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed the Navy had yet to receive any orders to re-form a naval battle group in the central Mediterranean off Libya's coast. But they acknowledged the latest preparations were the clearest indication yet that plans were being studied for a military strike...
...wrote many contingency plans," a top CIA officer told TIME last week. Among them: a joint U.S.-Egyptian operation designed to topple Gaddafi, a plan to work with the French that included offensive actions from both the Mediterranean and Chad, and covert action involving other North African governments. McFarlane dispatched Poindexter, then his deputy, to confer with Egypt and other allies in the Middle East and Europe. "We even approached Israel," the intelligence official notes. But the response was discouraging; intelligence reports showed little chance of fomenting a coup within Libya, and none of the ideas jelled. "We learned...
...their ship and head for safety when fighting broke out. But General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev did seek to score some propaganda points. In a speech on Wednesday, the Soviet leader denounced the "imperial, bandit face" of U.S. policy, and then offered to withdraw Soviet naval forces from the Mediterranean if the U.S. did likewise. The ploy was scarcely plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests in the Mediterranean is considered vital and stretches back 40 years. Gorbachev's offer, said one official, was in effect asking the U.S. to sacrifice a knight for a pawn. On Saturday, Gorbachev went...