Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force base at Bandar Abbas, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the gulf. A new, even bigger base for the two services is planned for Chah Bahar, close to the Pakistan border on the Gulf of Oman, extending Iranian influence into the Indian Ocean. A complex to handle a helicopter force of 10,000 men is to be built at Isfahan, in the interior. In addition, a vast communications network and automated logistics system for the armed forces is under study. "It sounds as though your ambition is for Iran to become the strongest country...
...times," reported one participant), and so was the disheartened George Shultz, ready to trudge on. The ripples from such meetings can in the long run change the Government and the nation. But is it too little and too late? Richard Nixon's Government is for now an ocean of despair...
...things have taken place between the great powers. [When I visit Washington] I am not going to beg for food. I'm going to discuss our relationship in its totality. I want to hear America's views on our mutual obligations, on the subcontinent and the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East. We are not one of those countries that are ashamed of their relations with you. We are proud of ours and would like to further consolidate them...
...movie's sets are predictably professional. Coburn's ocean-yacht, the setting for most of the action, is everything you might expect to find in a position of honor at an Orange County boat show. It is a distracting picture of gaudiness, pannelled cabins and wall to wall carpeting, mansion sized bedrooms and an invisible crew. Like Sleuth's manor, the yacht is stocked with games. On seeing the living room for the first time, Dyan Cannon remarks, "Who designed this place -- Parker Brothers?" Ross dots the boat with dartboards and three dimensional chess sets, but Sleuth much better exploited...
...prodigy in real estate, by 1940 he has branched out to become a multimillionaire buying and selling junk automobiles in Indianapolis and wrecked ships in the Indian Ocean...