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...attacks at Rome and Vienna airports by Palestinian terrorists supported by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Two Libyan MiG-25 fighters intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane to the north of the Gulf of Sidra, then darted back to Libyan airspace before F/ A-18 jets from the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea could reach the scene. While Gaddafi condemned Ronald Reagan as a "Hitler No. 2, " the Pentagon expressed concern about increasingly overt intelligence-gathering activities in the area by Soviet ships and aircraft. The crisis, meanwhile, gave TIME Correspondent John Borrell a chance to observe at close range...
...weighs 65,000 tons, a monster by Soviet standards but considerably smaller than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (1,092 ft., 94,000 tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like the 37,000-ton Minsk, are equipped only for short...
...because Connaught Laboratories suspended production for a nine-month period during which it could not find insurance at an acceptable price. Now Lederle Laboratories, the only other maker of the vaccine, is talking of halting output in July if a threatened cutoff of its liability insurance materializes. Beech Aircraft figures the cost of liability premiums at a stunning $80,000 on each plane it sells. Says William Mellon, director of corporate communications: "The owner-pilot market has all but dried up, and one cause is the cost of product liability. It has driven the price of a new airplane...
Head on from the wave tops, it rises like a sleek steel Adonis, shoulders swelling massively from a taut waist. From high above, the jutting contours of its deck map the outlines of a miniature continent. The newest of America's 14 aircraft carriers, the 1,092-ft-long Carl Vinson, is the most powerful and expensive conventional weapon of war ever built. It is a symbol of the Reagan Administration's new globalism, in which the 19th century notion of gunboat diplomacy has been transformed into one of aircraft-carrier diplomacy. It is the pre-eminent weapon...
...Aircraft carriers have been controversial ever since the U.S. Navy commissioned its first flattop, jury-rigging a converted collier by sticking a long black strip of tarmac over its deck in 1922. Battleship captains back then mocked the ungainly craft as a "covered wagon." More than half a century later, long after the carrier became the capital ship of the U.S. Navy, the doubters and true believers are still trading salvos in an engagement that has only heated up since ships of the Sixth Fleet sailed into harm's way in the Gulf of Sidra...