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...Soviet confrontation. An American warship making a port call or steaming off the coast of a Third World country might indeed bolster a regime friendly to Washington. In a period of mounting local tensions, sending naval units to strategically important regions, such as the Persian Gulf and eastern Mediterranean, could dissuade the Soviets from intervening...
...Congressmen, U.S. security depends on surface vessels capable of performing the two major missions that have been assigned to them since the end of World War II. They are: ? Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle...
Warren Christopher, 52. As meticulous, painstaking and self-effacing as his boss, the Deputy Secretary has been called "Vance's Vance." Also a lawyer, he has been the principal troubleshooter for the eastern Mediterranean region, recently concluding an agreement with Turkey by which the U.S. embargo on arms sales would be lifted in return for concessions by Turkey on Cyprus. He has also dealt with some even stickier problems: pushing the Panama Canal treaties, trying to convince Germany and Brazil that they should abandon a nuclear power plant deal and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he should publicly accept...
...Israelis--for different reasons. Seeing Nasser commit 70,000 men into what is now the Democratic anti-monarchists, fearing the further spread of Arab influence and ever aware of the importance of maintaining an open seaway from the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Israelis sent police-military advisers to Ethiopia to combat the Moslem independence group in Eritrea. At the same time the rebel Eritreans received support from Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The backward empire of Iran. however, susceptible to Soviet influence and a possible overthrow by insurgent Marxists, established diplomatic relations in Addis Ababa...
Such paintings are grounded in a Gothic past. In general, expressionism preferred the art of the Nordic Middle Ages, with their unrelenting insistence on the "four last things"-death, judgment, heaven and hell-to any Mediterranean tradition. Egon Schiele's knobbly waifs, all etiolated limbs and pinched flesh, are the lineal descendants of the fallen Eves in Gothic art. The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse. Expressionism was an art of confession, directed against the impermeable crust of a deeply formalized...