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...government daily Izvestia quoted a cruise-ship seaman, identified only as "Helmsman Smirnov," as saying "We saw the bulk carrier in the distance. The duty officer started calling it by radio. We took its bearing and realized that the ship would cross our path. After a few moments came the Pyotr Vasev's answer: 'Don't worry. We shall steer clear of each other. We shall do what is needed.' " Yet the freighter failed to change course. Another newspaper report charged that the Admiral Nakhimov's captain was negligent. Both captains were arrested and are in custody pending the outcome...
...block those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...
...implications for the Soviet side." Among other things, he said, decoding messages enabled the Soviets to figure out the location and routes of Navy vessels. For example, they may have learned the "operations order for Fleet Exercise 83-1, a unique exercise conducted near the Soviet coast by three carrier battle groups" in 1983, as well as the "communications plan for all U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...
Money-losing People Express, Frontier's troubled, no-frills parent, had pulled the plug on its cash-short subsidiary six weeks after announcing that Frontier was to be sold to powerful United Airlines, the largest U.S. commercial carrier, for $146 million. People executives continued to pursue negotiations with United, which had been pledged some of Frontier's most important assets in return for a $46.7 million advance payment. But the remainder of their original deal was in tatters. At last, on Thursday, Frontier formally filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. Said People Express in a statement: "Unless some other entity...
Patrick Henry Sherrill was a mediocre postman. After 16 months as a part-time letter carrier for the post office in Edmond, Okla. (pop. 47,000), Sherrill was still receiving complaints from his managers about misdirected mail and tardy performance. Last week, after two supervisors reprimanded him, Sherrill told a local steward for the American Postal Workers Union that he was being mistreated. "I gotta get out of here," he said...