Soviet Warships Seen Off Northern Japan
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From Reuters
TOKYO — More than a dozen Soviet warships including four cruisers and an aircraft carrier steamed past Japan on Thursday and Defense Agency officials said they may be planning large-scale exercises in the North Pacific.
The four cruisers and a destroyer were east of La Perouse straits between Japan and the Soviet island of Sakhalin, a Defense Agency spokesman said.
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