Word: sealift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many details are known about the Soviet brigade, which according to the State Department is composed of motorized rifle battalions, tank and artillery battalions, and combat and service support elements. Significantly, it has no independent airlift or sealift capability...
Oilmen for the three companies involved in the sealift-Atlantic Richfield, Standard Oil Company of Ohio and British Petroleum-have maintained that air and overland shipments of some equipment would allow at least a trickle of oil to flow on schedule, regardless of this year's ice. But last week's delay threw a shroud over even that promise, and any major sealift probably will have to wait until next year. If nothing else, the professional meteorologists used by the oil companies might learn a lesson from the Eskimos. Last summer they reportedly predicted that ice would prevent...