Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China's new leaders are highly displeased to have an ally of Moscow to the south. Peking claims that the Soviet navy has occupied Cam Ranh Bay, that the Soviet army has a camouflaged missile site at Hon Gay, and that the Russians are building a naval base near Haiphong...
...deteriorating relations have apparently made the White House nervous; after the President bluntly warned the Russians, at this year's U.S. Naval Academy graduation exercises, that they had to choose between confrontation or cooperation, he may have got more of a reaction than he bargained for. In a seeming shift in tactics at week's end, the White House began sending forth signals that it was going to temper its rhetoric in dealing with the East in the hopes of reversing the downward cycle of détente...
...extortion several times. First, illegal ship brokers in Viet Nam demand 20 to 35 taels of gold ($6,000 to $10,500 on the Saigon market) to put a family of six on a fishing junk with 150 other people. When the ships near the Thai coast, Thai naval patrols sometimes climb aboard and rob the refugees of their remaining money and belongings. At least 1,000 boat people from Viet Nam are currently living in abject squalor on a stretch of beach in Songkhla, near the Malaysian border. These refugees have thus far survived...
Last week the President did so. Addressing a graduation class at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Carter talked straight to Moscow in some of the harshest words used by a U.S. President since John Kennedy in 1961 charged the Soviet character with being "stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest." At the same time, he offered the Russians an olive branch of potential good will from the U.S. side, if only they would make the right decision. "The Soviet Union can choose either confrontation or cooperation," said Carter at the climax...
...effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia or to establish Soviet naval or missile bases in Viet...