Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has begun to redress the Soviet-American military balance in the region. The U.S. has negotiated agreements with Somalia, Kenya and Oman for access to their ports and airfields in a crisis. Borrowing vessels from its Mediterranean and Pacific fleets, the U.S. Navy has stationed two nuclear-armed aircraft carrier groups in the Indian Ocean and a five-vessel task force in the area of the gulf itself. In March the Pentagon announced the creation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, a reservoir of more than 200,000 troops from which the President could draw an instant expeditionary...
Until now, U.S. ships on station in the Indian Ocean have been fed by supply lines stretching to Subic Bay in the Philippines, about 3,600 miles to the east, or to the Mediterranean Sea, some 3,200 miles to the northwest. Meanwhile, an imposing Soviet fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will...
...leads a quiet, unpretentious life, especially for a multimillionaire. He and Mariana rent a one-bedroom apartment in Monte Carlo; they will continue to live there after then-marriage in Bucharest next month. "It is nice, but not fancy," she says. "We do have a balcony that overlooks the Mediterranean, and we love to eat breakfast outside when the weather is nice...
Nixon's world is a very simple one. There are Soviets and there is the West. The Third World does not exist, it is merely a set of Monopoly for the two superpowers. ("Trade you Park Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...plot line: Aggy (Angela Paton), ex-Wife from hillbilly country, remeets ex-Husband Berto (Jerry Stiller), a failed inventor. Her ostensible purpose is repossession of mingy personal belongings. Her real purpose: repossession of Hubby, a toasty-warm, sentimental, well-endowed Mediterranean stud...