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...more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike the mammoth Soviet naval facilities on the Kola Peninsula or dispatch amphibious landing forces to Norway to help blunt a Red Army invasion. One advantage of relying on carrier-based power, according to Senator Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat who chairs the Military Construction and Stockpiles Subcommittee, is that "we may be evicted [from land airbases] with a change...
Hours later, Norwegian radar screens picked up the scramble of Soviet fighter-interceptors as the South Korean plane intruded on Russian airspace near the Kola Peninsula, which lies to the east of Finland. By that time, Captain Kim had activated his "7700" on-board distress signal...
...passengers who died in the incident and the surviving crew and passengers, except for the ill-fated flight's captain and navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based on the peninsula. Since the Soviets not only had the two key crewman but also the Korean airliner...
...country. The Somalis, fearing Soviet support of Ethiopia and seeing the possibility of expansion in the future checked, expelled the Soviets, forcing them to withdraw from Berbera. But the Soviets, anticipating the Somali move, had already established themselves at Aden, the port at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula of South Yemen, long considered by the British as the most strategic point on the Red Sea. The base is close to the Red Sea island of Yanbu, where the Saudis are building a $10 billion refinery-city...
...appeared that most of the Amoco Cadiz's 220,000 tons of crude oil-twice the amount released by the infamous Torrey Canyon eleven years ago-would ooze from the American-owned supertanker, which lay broken in two after going aground off the storm-tossed Brittany peninsula...