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...works for the NYNEX telephone company in New York City. His department, which installs and maintains fiber-optic networks, has been reduced from 27 people to 20 in recent years, in part by combining what were once three separate positions -- switchman, powerman and tester -- into his job of carrier switchman. As a result, says Kelterborn, he often works up to four extra hours a day and one weekend in three. "By the time I get home," he complains, "all I have time for is a shower, dinner and a little sleep; then it's time to turn around...
...carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower set out from Norfolk, Virginia, today on the first extended coed mission of an American warship, a Navy crew that included 400 women. Though women are outnumbered by men more than 10 to 1, the size of the female crew met the Navy's critical mass for shipwide alterations -- to everything from bunks to "heads," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. He notes the mission, this time to the Persian Gulf, took two years to get under way after Congress lifted the ban on women's serving aboard warships...
Bill Clinton did not claim mission accomplished, but he was eager to declare the U.S. occupation of Haiti a success. Aboard the newly returned aircraft carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Virginia, last week, the President told 1,500 sailors and officers that by landing in Haiti, they had "brought a new day to people who thought they would never get it." On behalf of the American people, he was delivering a "heartfelt thank...
...determined to keep that from happening. The Pentagon, in its sternest tones, announced that 4,000 U.S. troops would immediately be dispatched to Kuwait to beef up forces already in the area. The carrier U.S.S. George Washington and a clutch of cruise missile-carrying warships were moved into the Persian Gulf. Secretary of State Warren Christopher added a Kuwait stop to his Middle East tour this week to reaffirm U.S. support for the beleaguered emirate. And to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that may have led to the Gulf War, Bill Clinton issued a clear warning to Saddam: "It would...
Massed troops in southern Iraq fueled speculation that Saddam Hussein was preparing to reinvade Kuwait. The U.S. responded swiftly, ordering 4,000 Army troops from Georgia to Kuwait and dispatching the aircraft carrier George Washington to the Persian Gulf region. In London the British Defense Ministry announced that it was sending an extra frigate to patrol the waters off Kuwait. But the Baghdad government defended Iraq's right to move troops within its own borders, and there were no signs of panic in Kuwait...