Word: mediterraneans
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...Lebanese coast, the huge fleet steamed slowly eastward. Composed of 20 fighting ships, the armada was led by two of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz and the John F. Kennedy. The presence of so large a force in the volatile eastern Mediterranean last week inevitably raised the question: Was the U.S. preparing to launch a military assault to free all or most of the 24 foreigners, including eight Americans, held hostage by Shi'ite radicals in Lebanon...
...government was able to come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...
...Washington sources said one of two Marine amphibious groups now in the Mediterranean soon would also be allowed to head home...
...United states marshalled a strong battle group in the eastern Mediterranean over the past week in response to rising tensions in the Middle East and following a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in Lebanon...
...sources, who demanded anonymity, said the carriers Kennedy and Nimitz and a Mediterranean Amphibious Ready group of roughly 1900 Marines were steaming on a "routing patrol pattern" in the southeastern Mediterranean, south of Cyprus and relatively close to Lebanon...