Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooperation-where their own interests are clearly at stake. Some French commanders quietly continue to participate in infantry exercises with NATO forces in West Germany. French ships openly joined some 50 other vessels of the U.S., Britain, Italy and Greece in the alliance's "Operation Eden Apple" naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean last week...
Snap of the Fingers. Black-bereted naval infantrymen, the Soviet version of Marines, stroll the streets of Damascus. Intelligence trawlers refuel at what has become the Soviets' main Mediterranean port of call, Alexandria. Soviet patrol boats tie up 1,700 miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
Nothing of the sort has yet happened, and in fact the Russians so far have failed to persuade any of the countries along the Mediterranean, including Algeria and Egypt, to permit them to build a full-fledged naval base. But even without such bases, the Soviets now drop anchor all along the rim of the Mediterranean and sail binocular-to-binocular alongside the allies. The Russians muscled into the Mediterranean, says U.S. Rear Admiral Richard C. Outlaw, "in a concerted attempt to alter the balance of power in this area." It is to keep the balance even that this week...
...that, Britain announced that by the end of 1971 it would withdraw its forces and close down the elaborate naval base, a city within a city that has long been one of Singapore's largest employers...
...Malay Peninsula. Swan Hunter International, a British shipbuilding and repairing firm, is using that geographical fillip to advantage. Noting that no fewer than 127 mammoth tankers of more than 200,000 tons are on order throughout the world, the company is expanding repair facilities at the naval base to handle the ships that will pass by Singapore en route from Japan to the Persian Gulf...