Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the significance of the Soviet foothold in Somalia? From their headquarters at Berbera, the Russians would have the capability of dominating the southern approach to the Suez Canal. With missile-equipped naval vessels they could harass the sea lanes around the Persian Gulf, easily attaining naval dominance over large stretches of the Indian Ocean. On the other hand...
...admittedly prejudiced senior China watcher in Washington puts it thus: "The removal of the relatively benign American presence from the southern flank of China has caused Peking a lot of worry. Hanoi's relations with China are uneasy. Soviet access to Southeast Asia-possibly a naval base at Cam Ranh Bay [site of the largest U.S. military installation during the Viet Nam War]-would change the whole strategic balance of power in Asia...
Most serious of all is the fact that more than 1 million heavily armed, well-trained troops are arrayed on both sides of the DMZ: 625,000 in the South and 467,000 in the North (see map page 40). The Korean forces, combined with huge Soviet air and naval installations in Vladivostok, just 40 miles from the border, with perhaps 1.5 million Soviet and Chinese troops facing off at the Manchurian border and with a lethal U.S. nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, put the Korean peninsula at the center of what may well be the most intensively militarized region...
...Chinese have apparently become more concerned than ever about Soviet influence in Asia. As the major supplier of arms to North Viet Nam, the Soviets have more influence in Hanoi than Peking has, and the Chinese are fearful that the Russians might eventually try to establish a naval presence in the South China Sea, perilously close to China itself. Now, with the Marcos visit to Peking, China has put itself on a friendly footing with a previously hostile country while moving to balance growing Soviet influence in Southeast Asia...
...April 21, 1970, he served notice of secession and declared his 18,500-acre farm a sovereign state, which he called the Province of Hutt River (pop. 20). Clad in white tie and tails and sporting an old British naval sword, he dubbed himself Prince Leonard and elevated his family and friends to the peerage. Deeming him a harmless eccentric, the federal government pretended not to notice the prince and his province. But Casley, 47, the son of a Kalgoorlie railroad fireman, has proved difficult to ignore. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim recently received a letter from Prince Leonard...