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The Big Gains
Russia Made
In Mideast
IONDON --
la July there was a naval itendril bi
the MeAhrranean Sea that wept large!; uerctod.because of
UgMrUtg land ear to Palestine. Bet the Rasstana deployed
47: warabip* late. the Medilerreneiet wtwro Vie U S oth
Fled nwirudly consists of M veenMpe.
' TIn Sovtati heddnut 19 wbrnerinr* end several gilded fedsifle erebers. cauMitg Arnsriraa Navy etfirieU to reveal . tome afartRiig aritamritc. Soviet operations! <3*n In the
hiedderrnun during the flrat atz months o( 1H7 hod in creased seme 400 fhnee daring the presHcucy of Lyndon I Johnson. And rrughly state John Kennedy's death, Soviet I who have kntarad tlielr operational rf)W in tha Kcdb
Vernein by ,000 par ceaL
' Altosugfc b> shots were exetaagei, the Soviet fleet I greatly improved Its strategic pasllton. It now Isa the run of I Bgypttan ports Whereas ih UJj. CHi Kieet is barred by dlplo- , raeUctnietarc from many perta It uJVomully vbiled along the MedUen-anean's soutotA glares.
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THK BRAZEN CANARD that accused oar carriers of lunching attack* in rapport of Israel seens to have tecoue Ingrained legnd M soma td the Arab states, and thli has had ptaoeltha etteri ol a bet battle.
By way el Indicating what It would mean H the power alhnlka in the MalHernman were reversed, hen is s well ; rimgtdered eiccrpt ttet recently appeared in an Italian ptofl-
cation. By reraUonfeing the name of toe fleet, tt La net ditfienR to am whet Ihe difference wndd be. The article
goes:
"II vs five qbbtly in eur hemes, if wo select me- govarn-
mato tttth the dneeraBc weapon of free elections, this is
mostly due to Ure 61b Thai la our sees. But, ifecpile Its
importmw *, the fleet does not dislirb aifytody, fees no im>
n thing on anybody and acts only In ocepUosa] dr-
cumataftoa."
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THE MAN MOST duty-botmd with tha ftti PM't prestige
and activities is Mb operational connaoridav Adm John Mo ney KcCeto Jr.. Leadon-bastd, Iowa-born, bb ot flie most ccOward-miodedimninibe service.
When McCrtn, a wiry,' energetic one-time submariner,
was Navy chid of information in Wastrington, he cite* lec
tured the press with waning* about Rossin'a oceanward
push.; - He spebe wt mgth about the need for detog on water
what the NATO grand forces bava dona down tha middle el Eirape Be foresaw the 8stM flanking movement wUcb maierlatocd in July and which backs up tha am largo gccpoll; licit gain by iheftuntons In tha Johnson presidency.
. rShci"rin onward bound, to a taw days, to tha Middle
' East, as a guest observer of Lehnncn and Iran, I colled on
MeCato whose repomWlilies as UB. Cbmmaoiler ir. duet, ' Bnrape, cover Navy irtts from GreenlaoA as far Southward
' an the Indian Uonn. Ha is the No. a diplomat in Leaden,
second out; to (be ambassador, and like aC diplomats these
; dayo. is raullqtis wWinevjincn.
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: - ^FSOM THE. NAVY VIEWPOINT/ McChin RiU OOteWcr
; lbs status quo Inch in balance when Jib 6th Fleet ships con
' dpufit pH eighth^ fewer Russian vessel! in whnt was onre
AJHod wafer* and can resume oormai pert eelIs to tbs inter
est of frLewdly ntottaos.
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Bui it may be longer than we bite before ire.know {he ' lasting ctaaoqwncea ot Uio wniiner war to tbs Middle
But. _ _
' The Brltlsli who are bystanders but wbo previously trek
their- Junipa to Egypt, do not regard the collapse ot Uw Ara
bian forces as a Western victory, Par from that. British
nlfiders teU McCato'lhat Russia came out all too well In tie
lose o( ft bllion of miliary oquipmrat
.
. That to not a targe'price to pay for the enormously in
creased tr.debteibcss of too United Arab Repvbic to the
Cnmmuiiw-l bVr. Fur that price, tt* Soviets aiade It more
(hen over dUfladt tat the Uoiled States to maintain the pu-
hre of a peaealcepcr end a Head to all contestaab, much
as wa prefer tbotreptdatfcni
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