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...cents. Says Joseph Hopkins, a spokesman for Chicago-based United Airlines, which alone saves $20 million a year for every 1 cents fuel-price reduction: "We can take quick advantage of price breaks." Donald Burr, chairman of Newark-based People Express, now the fifth largest U.S. carrier, says that his company is getting "terrific savings." In the first quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge may not result in lower air-fares, since they have already been slashed by the recent discount wars, but reduced fuel costs...
Navy brass point out that the $75 billion array of carrier groups looked pretty intimidating to Gaddafi, who dared not send his 535-plane air force aloft to challenge the Sixth Fleet. But questions about both the cost and effectiveness of the operation are sure to be part of the continuing debate over how to allocate military resources and structure the Pentagon bureaucracy for the defense the U.S. will need in the decade to come...
...vexing subject: how to avoid the reach of a unique federal law called RICO, which not only targets Mob leaders but can also dismantle their whole illegal enterprise. "Remember that word 'enterprise,' " Family Boss Gennaro Angiulo cautioned his brothers at one conclave. "And it isn't the aircraft carrier either...
Should such orders be issued, however, the Navy is in position to form a two-carrier battle group that would include 16 combat ships and more than 160 airplanes, the sources said. It would take about two days to move such a battle group to the Libyan coast, said the sources, who would speak only on condition of anonymity...
...Pentagon officially declined comment on the position of the Navy ships. But officials who requested anonymity said the carrier Coral Sea--its orders to return home canceled--had departed port in Malaga, Spain, early yesterday...