Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets, naturally, have electronic spies of their own. Their trawler fleet makes up their most visible snooping force, showing up regularly in the South China Sea off Viet Nam and seaward from Cape Kennedy during U.S. space shots. The Soviets launch military reconnaissance satellites as regularly as does the U.S. TU-95 Bear turboprop converted bombers have been working near Alaska, since the early 1960s. Most recently they have been keeping tab on the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-sometimes flying with Russian markings, sometimes with Egyptian. A shorter-range reconnaissance airplane, the TU-16 Badger, until a year...
Mother Glory. The semipermanent Russian flotilla is nothing if not well-organized. The largest Russian "mother" vessels measure half again as long as a football field and constitute floating factories in which the daily hauls of up to 20 trawlers are processed, frozen and stored. They also supply and refuel the smaller vessels and can haul them out of the water for repairs. Black Sea Glory even has medical and dental facilities for trawler crewmen, as well as movies and ball games on deck...
...squabble over fishing rights flared again when a Peruvian navy vessel challenged U.S. tuna boats working within the 200-mile limit that Peru claims as territorial water. On earlier occasions, tuna men were released after buying fishing licenses. This time the Peruvians pumped more than sixty shots into one trawler. After U.S. officials inspected the porous hull, Ambassador John Wesley Jones submitted a $50,000 damage bill to Peru. Unless the I.P.C. situation improves, U.S.-Peruvian relations will come to a bitter climax in April when President Nixon is forced by the Hickenlooper Amendment to revoke $79 million...
...ship during construction. "There is no question in my mind," he says, "that one day icebreakers will no longer be used. Cargo ships themselves will do the ice-breaking." In a prelude to such an era, two Alexbow-equipped barges will be driven by a 5,000-h.p. trawler through 200 miles of Arctic ice this summer to supply a consortium drilling for oil on Canada's northernmost islands...
...would have been easy enough for the U.S. flotilla to harass the Soviet trawler, but that would have invited similar treatment for any U.S. ELINT, or electronic intelligence-gathering vessel, in any other part of the world. Even in the seamy business of espionage, some gentlemanly rules prevail, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union, as first-rate maritime powers, generally try to observe them scrupulously. North Korea, with only a bathtub navy, obviously feels no such compunction. "The North Koreans have made their own rules," said Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer, "and they are new rules...