Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time. Most scientists finally agree, for example, that the continents-which look as if they once fitted together like a giant jigsaw puzzle-indeed broke off from one or two immense land masses along volcanically active cracks in the earth's crust known as mid-ocean ridges. Part of this undersea mountain chain, which girdles the earth like stitching on a baseball, has now been identified as the prime suspect in still another major geological mystery: the raw and atypical terrain of the American West...
...facility was guided by the fact that for the past two years, the Russians have been moving into the power vacuum created by Britain's decision to abandon its military position East of Suez. Since 1968, the Soviets have had as many as 30 ships in the ocean at a time and rarely fewer than...
...contrast, the U.S. has only two destroyers and a seaplane tender based at Bahrein. The British also have about seven ships in the Persian Gulf, and at least 20 more based at Singapore. Some naval experts argued that the U.S. already has Polaris submarines in the Indian Ocean and could bring in surface vessels from the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific at any time. In the end, however, the Administration concluded that the Soviet naval buildup should not be allowed to go unchallenged. "The President decided," said a White House source, "that we simply could not leave the door wide...
String of Buoys. The dimensions of the Soviet buildup in the Indian Ocean also worry Australia and Great Britain. In light of the Tory government's decision to retain a token military force to help defend Singapore and Malaysia, there is uneasiness in London about supplying that force via a body of water dominated by the Russians. Heath has argued for resuming South African arms sales on the ground that the Soviets' Indian Ocean presence makes the Simons-town naval base more important than ever; but the plan has run into such opposition from black African Commonwealth members...
...size of the Russians' Indian Ocean fleet is hardly alarming in worldwide terms, and the ocean itself remains an area of peripheral U.S. concern. Nonetheless, if the Soviet navy should become the only naval force within the Indian Ocean, it could have an important effect on the nations in that region and inevitably could limit the political options available to the West...