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...trimmed its active fleet to 174 major surface combat ships. Nonetheless, Polmar believes that the U.S. Navy still leads the Soviets in a number oif critical areas. Among them: carrier aviation (1,120 fighters and bombers aboard 14 attack carriers), nuclear-propelled surface ships and the ability to refuel and resupply ships at sea. This last capability permits the U.S. to keep a ship at sea for a longer period of time than the Russians, though Polmar expects the Soviets to catch up within a year...
...source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said Papadopoulos, who refused to let the United States Sixth Fleet refuel at a major Greek naval base during the recent Middle East war, showed signs of swaying from U.S foreign policy...
...begin with, Washington was incensed by the fact that Prime Minister Edward Heath declined to let Britain propose an American-initiated cease-fire resolution in the United Nations. When the giant U.S. airlift to Israel began, several European countries pointedly told Washington that American transport planes could neither refuel in their territory, even at American airbases, nor fly over it. Portugal alone cooperated, allowing the U.S. aerial convoy to touch down at Lajes Field in the Azores for refueling...
...journey was no laughing matter for Captain Konuma. Because a window had been cracked by the grenade explosion, he had to fly at the low altitude of 3,000 ft. "It was such a dangerous flight that I was covered with cold sweat," he says. Konuma received permission to refuel at Damascus. Just after the jet took off again two hours later, a terse message came over the radio from a Palestinian organization in Amsterdam: "You are to be released." Hearing that, the terrorists told the captain to land at Benghazi...
This ditty is recited by the children of Cook. They are up at dawn to watch the train refuel before it heads across the 500-mile plain of Nullarbor (Latin for "not any tree"). The desolate limestone plateau is covered with sea fossils, saltbush, and red-flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith...