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...matter of fact, I hope this article may cause you to re-evaluate the statement in your Essay, "How to Cut the U.S. Budget" [Dec. 8], that "ripe for reduction is the $600 million yearly subsidy to the aged, ailing merchant marine." This earlier statement fails to recognize that in its broadest sense, seapower is the ability of a nation to project into the world ocean in times of peace, its national sovereignty; in times of war, its military might...
Unfortunately, judging from the President's proposed budget for merchant shipping programs in fiscal year 1969, he must have read and heeded the counsel in your Essay. I only hope that the President now reads and heeds "Russia: Power Play on the Oceans...
Livingston Merchant '63, tutor in Government and one of those present at the Littauer meeting, said that his colleagues had shown some support of the petition yesterday. He noted, however, that "some people just aren't going to sign...
Moreover, unlike other naval powers, the Soviet Union uses its merchant marine and other seagoing services as important arms of the navy. Russia has the world's fastest-growing merchant fleet, which will pass the lagging U.S. merchant marine in tonnage in the early 1970s. Its high-seas fishing fleet is the world's largest and most modern; many of its 4,000 craft fish for vital information along foreign coasts as well as for the creatures of the sea. The Sovi et Union also has the largest oceanographic fleet, whose 200 ships plumb the earth's waters for militarily...
...places will act as a deterrent to the U.S. Moreover, the Russians want to be ready to move quickly into any areas where U.S. power and prestige may recede. They not only plan to project a more tangible Russian influence in the underdeveloped world but also, by using their merchant fleet, to get a strong hold on the raw materials vital to Soviet?and often to American?industry. Ultimately, though, the Russian navy's biggest threat is a military one. Its offensive strategy not only zeroes submarine-carried nuclear missiles in on U.S. cities, but aims to isolate North America...