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Japanese government and industry are bringing to ocean travel the same technology they have used in the development of magnetically levitated trains. The Yamato, named for a World War II battleship, is powered by superconductive electromagnets that have been cooled down to an energy-efficient -425.47 degrees F. The magnets shoot electrified seawater through a set of jetlike thruster tubes, thus greatly reducing the noise and vibration associated with the traditional rotating propeller. But before this system can be applied commercially, the size of the magnets, which now limits the vessel's speed and cargo space, will have...
When the Navy claimed that the 1989 gun-turret explosion that killed 47 sailors on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa was "most probably" caused by sabotage, its investigation was widely criticized as sloppy and its conclusion as unjustified. Last week testimony by the General Accounting Office gave the critics strong support. The GAO found that the disaster may not have been triggered by a crewman, Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig, as the Navy hypothesized...
Calling the aid a "Fund for Democracy," Bush said Nicaragua should get $500 million and Panama $570 million. To pay for it, the Pentagon would postpone projects at Fort Ord, Calif., Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Hood, Texas, delay repairing the damaged battleship Iowa and use savings from a hiring freeze. Bush said Congress should vote the aid package by April 6. It is expected to do so, but only after enlarging the pot. Since the President has opened the military vault, Congress presumably will look for the extra cash at the Pentagon...
...Navy's claim that Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig deliberately ignited the explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship U.S.S. Iowa last April | has failed to convince many critics. New doubts have been raised now that an insurance company has paid off on the double-indemnity policy Hartwig took out 17 months before the explosion. The beneficiary: Hartwig's former shipmate, Kendall Truitt, who will get $101,000 (and who has agreed to give part of the money to Hartwig's family...
...August 1941, five months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard a battleship offNewfoundland, Canada, and proclaimed an AtlanticCharter providing for freedom of the seas andleading to the arming of merchant ships...