Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...height of the India-Pakistan war, Naval Task Force 74 of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, led by the attack carrier Enterprise, sailed into the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. The purpose of the mission was to evacuate Americans from East Bengal if necessary, but another reason was to impress the Indians and to counter any Soviet ships that might appear in the region. Last week, even as the ships began returning to their normal area of operations, the Pentagon announced that henceforth the U.S. Navy will be seen more often, and in greater strength, in the Indian Ocean...
...reason is that the Soviet navy has asserted its sway over the ocean almost by default. The British fleet, which once ruled the waves east of Suez, began to withdraw its forces in 1966. The Russians, meanwhile, have gradually created a squadron of ten or more ships on regular patrol, occasionally including nuclear submarines. During the recent war, there were 15 ships in the Soviet flotilla, including two guided missile cruisers...
...consciousness. We have broken the strings. We think we are then free, but we are still machines, not humans. We must go to life and suffer in search for human life. We must become animal (and here Jodorowsky braws like a donkey), accept passions. Now Pinocchio goes into the ocean. The whale is the universal mother. It eats him and he is reborn. He is a human being, beautiful, clean...
...Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then let's go for a dip in the ocean right now," said the Swedish actress. "But it's midnight," objected the Frenchman. "Le Pacifique est glacial." Garbo never talked to Chevalier again...
...members disagree on means for assessing and collecting damages, however. They agree that rivers and tracts of ocean should be privately owned, so that dumping wastes into them involves payment of damages to the owners. They believe that air pollution can best be controlled by showing correlations between different pollutants and the harms they cause, whereupon victims sue the polluters. Ultimately, though, their notions of the mechanisms involved differ, as well as the heaviness of the damages settlements...