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...surprise Soviet missile attack would not sink the entire Sixth Fleet strike force. The Russians, on the other hand, appear to be primarily intent on neutralizing the Sixth Fleet. For this purpose they have assembled an impressive array of missile power aboard their ships, including the 22-mile-range Styx aboard small gunboats, the 100-mile Strela aboard destroyers, and the 400-mile, supersonic Shaddock aboard Soviet cruisers...
...French-built missile boats, the last five of which were smuggled out of Cherbourg in December in defiance of France's arms embargo. Each Sa'ar (Hebrew for storm) carries eight Gabriels. According to Pentagon specialists, the missile represents a technological breakthrough and greatly outperforms the Soviet Styx system, which the Egyptian navy used to sink the Israeli destroyer Elath in 1967. Its guidance is self-contained, combining both infra-red (heat-seeking) and radar-homing techniques. The Gabriel hunts down its target at such low levels that it becomes coated with sea spray on long flights. Washington...
...gunboats are ideal for Israel's small navy. Egypt already has 20 Soviet-built gunboats of the Osa and Komar classes; one of the Osas stunned Israel in October 1967 by sinking the destroyer Elath with a Styx missile. After the Six-Day War, Israel ordered a dozen vessels, each with a French hull, German engines and Italian electronics, including the 20-mile surface-to-surface Gabriel missile...
...line's phantasmagoria of apology and accusation calls for surrealist stage scenery and howling symbolism. A Seine barge becomes a houseboat on the Styx with doomed souls; Charon paddles with bones. Céline submerges readers in his stream-of-consciousness style, a brutal staccato in which about five words stutter out for every three dots. It sustains the impression of uncontrollable anger and unassuageable hatred as Céline rants against every contemporary literary and political figure, against the partisans who looted his apartment in Paris, against the post-Vichy government that imprisoned him. All is'"venom...
...begun to awaken to the potentialities of seapower. In the early '60s, the Soviets began to build up their navy all over the world (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Now the U.S. must reckon with the Soviet force in the Mediterranean-and so must the Israelis. When Soviet-made Styx missiles, fired from a torpedo boat by Egyptians, sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said in an incident in October 1967, the Israelis dared not retaliate directly for fear of hitting Soviet warships near by. Now the Soviets have brought a dredge into the Mediterranean; should they...