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...with the Soviets, whose position is not yet totally clear. Moscow has a few choices. By joining the boycott, the Kremlin would improve relations with black Africa, gaining ground on Communist China, which can't compete anyway. On the other hand, Moscow could use its influence to torpedo the boycott, hoping to gain more from the prestige of Olympic victories than from the benefits of the boycott. As a third possibility, and not completely out of character, the Soviets could strike a compromise by continuing their denunciation of the South Africans, the IOC, and Brundage but competing in the Games...
...morning of Aug. 2, Maddox saw three North Vietnamese torpedo boats near Hon Me. Later that day, three PT boats closed on Maddox within clear sight of her lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner...
...Maddox radarmen spotted what they reckoned to be five torpedo boats 36 miles to northeast. Task Group 72.1 began preparing for action...
Soviet cruisers and the Kresta-and Kynda-class destroyers carry the SSN3 missile, which can hit enemy ships at a range of 200 miles. The Krupny-and KiWm-class destroyers carry the 100-mile range SSN1 missiles, and the speedy Osa and Komar torpedo boats are armed with Styx missiles, whose effective range is 20 miles. A Styx fired by the Egyptians from a Komar sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said last October. U.S. Navymen insist that their planes would knock out Soviet ships before they got within firing range of U.S. warships or, failing that, that...
During those years, Gorshkov also formed the attachment for heavily armed small craft that is reflected today in the Soviet navy's emphasis on Komar and Osa torpedo boats. He welded the turrets from T-34 tanks to motorboats and formed a river fleet that harassed the Germans from Rostov-on-Don to Vienna on the Danube. The young admiral impressed some Red Army officers who were fighting in the area. One was a major general named Leonid Brezhnev, another a lieutenant general named Nikita Khrushchev...