Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RUSSELL M. TREE Port Huron, Mich...
ANYONE who has ever served on a Navy ship knows the all too familiar experience of being ordered out of port on short notice, racing to a featureless coordinate at sea, and then circling for days without ever knowing all of the reasons why. There was no uncertainty at all among the sailors and airmen of the Sixth Fleet ships that steamed watchfully in the eastern Mediterranean all last week. They knew from TIME'S cover story on the outbreak of civil war in Jordan (see cut), as well as from other sources, that Washington "was carefully leaking muted warnings...
...Moscow is footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another. When Soviet arms deliveries to replace weapons destroyed in the 1967 war fell...
...Soviets have come mainly as traders, they have not been shy about establishing a military presence, too. The White House broke the news only last week, but it has been clear for some time that the Soviets have been installing facilities to handle missile-carrying submarines at the Cuban port of Cienfuegos. Acting on reports of unusual Soviet activity, U.S. intelligence stepped up aerial surveillance of Cuba in midsummer (TIME, July 27). Among other indicators was the fact that the huge Soviet AN-22 transports, used to fly earthquake relief supplies to Peru, were leaving Moscow with perhaps 65 passengers...
...turn back to cross again, allowing Intrepid to breeze off to a 100-yd. lead. The second goof came on the fifth leg when Gretel II, closing hard on the defender, failed to follow Picker's starboard jibe and went in search of a better breeze on a port jibe. She did not find it. The fourth race saw Intrepid leading at all five marks, but with a scant mile and a half to go, the wind shifted and died down-and so did Intrepid. Playing the light air superbly, Hardy came on strongly while Ficker belatedly tried...