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...five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course through the Strait...
...daily al Ahram. What troubles the Arabs particularly is that if the Soviets can pull both Ethiopia and Somalia firmly into their orbit, they may successfully create an axis of influence along the African Horn that in time of crisis could give them control of the Bab el Mandeb Strait linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden...
...largest tank forces in sub-Saharan Africa. The Soviets have installed a large, tightly guarded missile base at Berbera to service missile warships. Neighboring nations fear that land-based missiles might be brought in as well; that could not only threaten the nearby strait of Babel Mandeb, but also the entrance to the Persian Gulf at Hormuz 1,300 miles away...
...only TV can create success. Little kids were immediately imitating Ernestine's "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" the way they said "dyno-mite" like Good Times' Jimmy Walker last year. Schlatter left Laugh-In in 1972, and the show, reflecting the strait-laced Nixon years, had less room for Tomlin's wild, irreverent humor. Before it folded in 1973, she was suing NBC to be released...
...Threatening force is most successful when its purpose is to bolster existing governments. In backing the Nationalist government on Taiwan, for example, the U.S. has frequently ordered the Seventh Fleet to steam up and down the Strait of Taiwan near the Chinese mainland and has alerted Air Force bombers based in Japan and Taiwan. In 1959 Cuban-backed insurgents who had landed in Panama to overthrow the government were intimidated into retreating when a U.S. destroyer and minesweeper and patrol planes appeared off the Panamanian coast...