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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

February 16, 1983

Four Soviet warships, including a guided-missile cruiser and a frigate, ended a Caribbean exercise that brought them within 50 miles of the US coast, Navy officials said. They called the 13-day exercise routine and said they believed the vessels were returning home.