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...hammocks in quarters that would house ten U.S. sailors. Few Russian ships have air conditioning. Thus vessels on duty in tropical waters are frequently rotated not so much for maintenance as to provide relief for "roasted crews." At true bitterly cold bases of the Northern and Pacific fleets in Murmansk, Vladivostok and the Kamchatka Peninsula, crews spend uncomfortable winters ashore in badly heated, uninsulated barracks...
Operating out of ice-free Murmansk, the northern fleet has an estimated 560 ships, including 160 submarines, more than 65 of them nuclear-powered (but not counting sizable forces in the Baltic, plus the East German and Polish navies). By contrast, the entire U.S. Atlantic Fleet has 358 ships, of which 40 to 50 are assigned to the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Since 1968, the U.S. command has been cut back 25% in ships and 19% in men, and it is scheduled to lose another ten ships by next summer. Says Norway's Rear Admiral Magne Braadland...
...heavy-truck factory from West Germany, a freight-containerization system from Britain and petrochemical plants from France. They are negotiating deals totaling more than $1 billion with the British for the construction of copper and nickel plants in Siberia and the modernization of the port of Murmansk. They are buying Italian machines for making a wide range of products, including drip-dry clothing, ice cream and bread sticks. In addition, the Russians hint that they intend to purchase abroad a vast line of equipment to furnish a dozen major airports and 200 smaller fields over the next 20 years...
...They have so much to do, and the working conditions are so bad, that they are tired out in the evening and aspire only for the comfort of their lonely rooms. The local food they soon found tasteless, and the restaurants run by their own countrymen are too expensive." Murmansk in midwinter? Hibbing, Minn.? Or maybe Skagway, Alaska? No. Paris, as seen in a column in the Saigon Daily News noting the woes of South Viet Nam's delegation to the peace talks, led by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. The paper conceded, though, that plenty of people...
Novelist-Playwright De Hartog (The Distant Shore, The Fourposter) makes Skipper Harinxma the most intriguing ship's officer since Horatio Hornblower. This is surprising in some ways, for the hero's trials occur on the well-plowed Murmansk run during World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights...