Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike their Western counterparts, the Soviet sailors are not allowed to let off steam in foreign ports. They go ashore only in groups escorted by a petty officer, take in local museums, points of historical interest, and window-shop. They buy few souvenirs, avoid bars and prostitutes and never tip. Usually they return to their ships by nightfall. In the ports along the Mediterranean where the Soviet fleet has displaced the Western ones, hawkers and whores are dismayed by the spartan conduct and serious demeanor of the Russian sailors...
...seas by three hundredfold in the last ten years, and much of its effort is devoted to a determined policy of harassment, probing and provocation. Across the oceans of the world, the light-grey-hulled Soviet warships are watching, trailing and sometimes crowdj ing the ships of the Western fleets, especially those of the U.S. Navy...
Soviet warships and electronic intelligence trawlers stalk U.S., British and other Western fleets far from the shores of the Soviet Union. Soviet subs and destroyers shadow the U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean, keeping a watch offshore when the carriers go into port and taking up the chase again when they come out. A fleet of espionage ships keeps watch off U.S. Polaris submarine bases at such places as Holy Loch in Scotland, Rota in Spain and Charleston, S.C. Other snoopers sit off Seattle, New England, and Cape Kennedy, where the Soviets monitor the U.S. space shots...
...Waiting Game. Undeterred, Savoretti returned to Moscow two years later, this time to stay. In 1956, he became the first Western businessman in residence, doggedly making the rounds of Soviet officials and fighting the gloom of Moscow hotel life. On the strength of his contacts,^ he came to arrange tours for more and more Soviet trader delegations to visit Italy...
...plants worth $40 million were ordered through his services from Chatillon in Italy. Then things started picking up with contracts for six 50,000-ton tankers for Savoretti's client Ansaldo, followed by others and culminating in the Fiat deal, the largest the Soviets ever made with a Western firm...