Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis immediately suspected an Egyptian maneuver aimed not only at reopening the canal's entire 107-mile length but perhaps at clearing the way for a blockade-busting run by one of the Soviet warships that have been anchoring at Port Said at the canal's Mediterranean entrance. Next day, as the Egyptian tugs pushed north from Ismailia, they opened fire...
Beneath the warm blue waters of the Mediterranean, a sea whose mood is usually thought of as serene, 121 men died in one of the most bizarre coincidences in naval annals. Hundreds of miles but only some 24 hours apart, an Israeli and a French submarine were lost in separate, unconnected and equally mysterious disasters. Sinking swiftly to great depths without leaving as much as a trace to guide searchers, Israel's Dakar went down somewhere between Cyprus and Haifa and France's Minerve only about 25 miles from her home berth at Toulon. Their entire crews...
Under the Sea. Even finding the missing subs proved impossible. Dozens of planes and ships equipped with radar and sonar sounding devices searched wide stretches of the Mediterranean without success. They found bits of debris and oil slicks, which are common in busy sea lanes, but analysis failed to link the findings with either the Dakar or Minerve. When the oxygen reserves of the two vessels were exhausted three to four days later, hopes for saving the 121 crewmen were abandoned...
...Soviet spy ship dogs every move of U.S. aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station," the 45,000-sq.-mi. area of the Tonkin Gulf from which American air strikes over North Viet Nam originate, flashing alerts to Hanoi. Other Russian ELINT ships shadow the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean...
...seized the opportunity. From Morocco on the Atlantic to South Yemen on the Arabian Sea, they are supplying weapons, training troops, running aid programs and generally making themselves useful in areas that until recently were Western 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...