Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with far more sympathy than antipathy in the capital, where he still retains a strange kind of trust. Just a few days earlier, he was able to borrow more than $500,000 from several banks to continue a condominium development he has started next to his Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md. Still, he says, "Russia wouldn't have treated me the way this country has." In the next breath he adds: "But I have no great resentment. No, this is a great country. It's done a lot for me. I like to think I have done...
Heath argues that the arms sales, cut off by the Labor government in 1964, are needed to protect British shipping and counterbalance the Soviets' growing influence in the Indian Ocean. His case was bolstered somewhat when two Soviet warships sailed within sight of the conference hall on their way to the Indian Ocean. Heath points out that South Africa (which resigned, under attack, from the Commonwealth in 1961) will be getting mostly frigates that could not be used to enforce internal repression; helicopters, however, would also be included...
...under Harold Macmillan, recently called Heath's apparent determination to go ahead with the arms sale not only "politically unwise" but also "militarily irrelevant." Worse, it could prove counterproductive. By antagonizing black African governments, Heath might actually hasten the expansion of Soviet influence-not only in the Indian Ocean but on the African land mass as well. But Heath seemed determined to have his way and lost few chances to argue his side of the controversy. The Bible lesson he read in St. Andrew's Cathedral from John 15 included a pointed message: "Ye are my friends...
...scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers; some will try to pick up samples from the geologically tantalizing highlands, probably the moon's oldest surface...
...stage is set by a German freighter that dumps arms into the stormy ocean. Enter handsome Tim O'Leary, the Commandant, with nine fine young men in oilslieks. O'Leary goes straight to the pub of Mr. Ryan, a trusted revolutionary, to ask for a dozen men to help collect cast-up munitions from the beach at daybreak. Trouble is, Mr. Ryan is an informer on the payroll of the aristocratic British major who is fucking around with Ryan's daughter...