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What may be giving the Russians pause is the fact that their support of Nasser's closing the Tiran Strait could backfire on them. The Turks, for example, might some day close the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, or the Scandinavians seal off the Baltic by blockading the Skagerrak and the Strait of Kattegat. Further, after implicitly endorsing Nasser's denial of the freedom of navigation, the Russians found themselves in the position of protesting that the U.S. had been guilty of the very same thing. Complaining that American planes had bombed a Russian ship berthed in a North...
...ceiling on the size of German destroyers be raised to 5.000 tons. He wants warships big enough to mount the latest A. A. rockets - and the 1,500-mile Polaris. His projected submarine force: 24 to 36 small coastal subs, designed to help block the Baltic at the Skagerrak Straits in case...
Furtive Voyage. Listed on the manifest as "steel rods, optical glass and laboratory supplies," the arms, in 15,000 cases, were loaded on the freighter Alfhem in the Baltic port of Stettin, now a part of Poland. Once through the Skagerrak and out of the foggy Baltic, the vessel acted like a ship carrying hot cargo. First she laid a course south for Dakar, French West Africa, but radioed orders changed the destination to Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies. Nearing Curaçao, the Alfhem was again diverted, this time to Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Finally the ship...
...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
...last week there were more than minefields in the Skagerrak to delay the shipment of Swedish pulp to U.S. paper mills. Mostly there was a matter of price. The Swedes, who know a seller's market when they see one, had set their price too high to get under the OPA ceiling...