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...that still illustrates its big-ship fixation: it proposes to take two, and eventually four, World War II battleships out of mothballs and fit them as floating missile platforms. That will be neither quick nor cheap. Recommissioning the New Jersey, which has been docked at Bremerton, Wash., since the end of the Viet Nam War, would cost $326 million, but that would be just to get it afloat. Equipping it to launch 100 missiles would raise the total cost to $1 billion, according to Norman Polmar, compiler of the authoritative guide The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. Polmar...
...ship construction will begin with an extra $367 million this year and $3.8 billion in 1982. To get a faster start on refurbishing the fleet, Weinberger wants to pull two 1940s battleships, the Iowa and New Jersey, out of mothballs in the ports of Philadelphia and Bremerton, Wash., and put them back in service. He would do the same with the aircraft carrier Oriskany, now in Bremerton. It will take at least two years and cost more than $860 million to re-equip the vessels, which are up to 38 years old. But, claimed Weinberger, "no other ship...
...under its new (since April 1977) chairman, A. Daniel O'Neal, 42, the ICC is now solidly for deregulation. A soft-voiced, informal lawyer (he wears short-sleeved shirts even in January) from Bremerton, Wash., O'Neal learned the ICC's operations as a consumer-minded staff member of the Senate Commerce Committee. He was named to the then eleven-member ICC (since reduced to six) by President Nixon in 1973, but it was not until Jimmy Carter made him chairman that he drew a bead on the set of regulations that had almost stamped out price...
...winners here are Laura J. Garwin '77 of Quincy House and Scarsdale, New York; Dennis E. Kloske '77 of South House and Bremerton, Washington; Lissa Muscatine '76 of Berkeley, Cal., Denise A. Thal '77 of Winthrop House and Huntington Woods, Mich., and Milton M. Yasunaga '77 of Kirkland House and Honolulu, Hawaii, the Rhodes Scholarship Committee announced...
Sanford M. Bullock Bremerton, Wash...