Word: mediterraneans
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...innovation aboard U.S. ships. Since federal law now forbids the presence of women aboard all but hospital ships and transports, Zumwalt chose as his pilot project the hospital ship Sanctuary, currently in drydock; 26 Navy women are slated to join the ship before it sails for the Mediterranean early next year. Zumwalt predicts: "The day will come when we'll see women serving on warships...
Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, visibly disturbed, repeated a question posed by Navy Chief Sergei Gorshkov: "Is our Mediterranean fleet going to go back to depending on Odessa for supplies and fresh water? This would mean we will have to contract our navy in the Mediterranean...
...prevent incidents at sea and in airspace over it between vessels and aircraft of the U.S. and Soviet navies." By indirection, the Russian exodus from Egypt has honored this pledge in one key sea. TU-16 Badger reconnaissance planes that have long overflown the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from Egyptian bases have ended such flights and gone home. The games of "chicken" that scrambling U.S. carrier pilots played with them have stopped...
...safeguard against the possibility that Egypt might some day reconsider and order Soviet sailors home too, the Russians reportedly are seeking additional port privileges elsewhere along the Mediterranean littoral. Such ports have a variety of uses; the U.S., although it operates a "naval train" from Norfolk to the Mediterranean to replenish the Sixth Fleet, also maintains naval facilities in Spain, Italy and, commencing fairly soon, Greece...
Such ports are essential to the Soviets because their Mediterranean squadron, like the Sixth Fleet, is a permanent strategic force, not merely a factor in the Egypt-Israel confrontation. Thus if Moscow allows the fleet to be displaced, the Russians would lose face-and power-everywhere in the Mediterranean...