Word: fleetingly
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...would finally come to her rescue. Said her brother: "Every day she becomes more and more desperate. She no longer comes home at noon. She no longer eats. Yesterday she waited at the river until after dark because someone she met told her that the U.S. Seventh Fleet was coming...
...ships of the Soviet navy were under full steam. Off the Azores, NATO spotter planes reported one of the 10,000-ton Kara-class two-year-old missile cruisers that Western naval experts rate among the world's best modern warships. In the Mediterranean, where the U.S. Sixth Fleet customarily roams while Soviet vessels lie in Syrian and North African ports-except for a few "tattletale" scouts dogging American carriers-the roles were reversed. The Soviet fleet was out in force and the Sixth Fleet was doing the tattling. Other Soviet task forces were sighted in the Pacific Ocean...
...Soviet navy took pains to advertise its muscle flexing. It passed routine naval orders over regularly monitored radio channels. Okean's essential message was a now familiar one: under Soviet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, the Soviet navy is no longer a coastal force but an impressive blue-water global fleet. Said one U.S. officer last week as he busily monitored the Soviet fleet at sea: "What they've done in just ten years is absolutely fantastic. From almost nothing, they've built up a first-rate navy, and it's an imposing threat...
...choice had seemed likely since January, when the U.S. Air Force ordered 650 F-16s for its own fleet. The fighter handles better than its chief competitors, the Swedish Viggen, built by Saab-Scania, and the Mirage F1-M53, built by the French firm Dassault-Breguet. The F-16 also appealed to the consortium because of the savings that would result from standardizing planes of U.S. and NATO forces...
...already chosen the F16, but the consortium may yet be split by Mirage-maker Marcel Dassault's offer of a discount to Belgium and The Netherlands if both countries buy the French fighter. Earlier versions of the Mirage make up at least half of Belgium's fighter fleet. The Belgian Socialist Party supports the French plane because a Dassault plant in that country employs more than 80 workers. The Dutch will make no official decision until after the congress of the Dutch Socialist Party convenes this week...