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Like Portsmouth, the Norfolk shipyard was not on the Pentagon's original list and did not at first take its late addition very seriously. The yard was founded in 1767 and built the first U.S. battleship, the Texas, and the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the Langley. The yard employs 10,000 workers and has seven dry docks that can handle any ship in the Navy...
...commission hearing two weeks ago, however, the Norfolk supporters got a shock. Though Norfolk is the only one of the three yards on the list that can overhaul aircraft carriers, commission members pointed out that a private firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., just down the road from Norfolk, would be willing and able to pick up that business. In fact, Newport News is short of work and earlier this month laid off 1,000 workers...
...Friday, two AC-130H Spectre gunships and American Cobra attack helicopters thundered over Mogadishu on a mission of retaliation for the killings, one week earlier, of 23 United Nations peacekeepers. For the next several hours, flares and tracer bullets lit the predawn skies of the Somali capital as the aircraft pummeled six sites of strategic importance to the country's paramount warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid. U.S. forces hit Aidid's radio station, four weapons and ammunitions dumps, and an abandoned cigarette factory that had been used to fire on the U.N. troops. At least 200 Somalis were detained, four died...
...would not benefit directly even if one of the nine companies Martens wrote about got White House business, because such business would not produce a fee. He did acknowledge, however, that TRM could have benefited from goodwill generated by the memo, possibly by consulting on subsequent transactions, like aircraft purchases. "I have too much regard for the charter owners to want them to carry the White House press corps, known to be unruly," said Thomason with a touch of sarcasm. "Would I turn in an office which is grossly inadequate again, knowing my motives would be questioned? Absolutely...
...valley in eastern Bosnia, American Special Forces troops with blackened faces silently slip out of a tree line to point laser beams at Serbian artillery pieces, ammunition stores and fuel dumps. The F/A-18 Hornet and A-6 Intruder aircraft from the carriers roar in, lock on to the laser spots and send their bombs streaking toward the targets...