Word: mediterraneans
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...What spy?" asked the man at his side, an Izvestia correspondent who was aboard the cruiser because Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov and General Aleksei Yepishev, the top political commissar for the Soviet military, were paying a visit to Moscow's Mediterranean fleet...
...will appear," murmured the signal officer of the cruiser Dzerzhinsky as the Soviet vessel cautiously approached the Bosporus on its voyage from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean...
Formidable Force. The skipper of the Ricketts was acting out of habit. Since World War II, the Mediterranean has been an American promenade from the Dardanelles to Gibraltar, 2,330 miles to the west. A formidable task force of warships and combat-ready Marines was posted in the Mediterranean to protect the southern flank of NATO, to "project force ashore" in the event of political crises,* and simply to show the U.S. flag. For a long time the Mediterranean was an American lake; any warship sighted was bound to be either friendly, neutral or innocuous...
...many as 10,000 men-but no aircraft except those aboard the helicopter carriers Moskva or Leningrad. U.S. combat ships on the average are 19 years old; the Russian fleet averages only seven years. Of all Soviet warships serving in international waters, fully one-half are assigned to the Mediterranean. Says Kidd: "We walk a tightrope of adequacy...
Sports: Stopped sports car racing in 1964 and riding to hounds in 1969. Riding, however, is still my favorite sport (France). Next: swimming (Mediterranean...