Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the world last week, ships of the Soviet navy were under full steam. Off the Azores, NATO spotter planes reported one of the 10,000-ton Kara-class two-year-old missile cruisers that Western naval experts rate among the world's best modern warships. In the Mediterranean, where the U.S. Sixth Fleet customarily roams while Soviet vessels lie in Syrian and North African ports-except for a few "tattletale" scouts dogging American carriers-the roles were reversed. The Soviet fleet was out in force and the Sixth Fleet was doing the tattling. Other Soviet task forces were...
...global flurry of activity was no accident. At least 200 surface ships and 100 submarines, along with land-based aircraft, were involved in a massive naval exercise, the first such worldwide maneuvers that the Soviet navy has run in five years. The Soviets dubbed the maneuvers "Spring"; the West called them "Okean 1975," a reference to the Okean (Russian for ocean) maneuvers that the Soviets held in 1970. The new exercise was apparently scheduled for the same length of time as the last one-about three weeks...
Varied Aims. Far from screening the maneuvers, the Soviet navy took pains to advertise its muscle flexing. It passed routine naval orders over regularly monitored radio channels. Okean's essential message was a now familiar one: under Soviet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, the Soviet navy is no longer a coastal force but an impressive blue-water global fleet. Said one U.S. officer last week as he busily monitored the Soviet fleet at sea: "What they've done in just ten years is absolutely fantastic. From almost nothing, they've built up a first-rate navy...
...done. I thought you couldn't beat the American press," chided retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, 77, who had just emerged from 18 days of seclusion with his daughter, Soviet Actress Victoria Fyodorova, 29. The child of a wartime love affair between Tate, then a U.S. naval captain in Moscow, and Actress Zoya Fyodorova, Victoria met her father for the first time on March 23. Her visit to the U.S., and the pair's successful retreat to a Florida hideaway, had been arranged and paid for by the gossipy National Enquirer. Last week at a 45-minute...