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...lack of firepower available should it choose to launch a retaliatory raid. The aircraft carrier Nimitz, with at least 60 fighter- bombers and an amphibious landing force of 1,500 Marines, sits just off the Lebanese coast. A Delta Force unit reportedly stands ready on Cyprus, 100 miles from Beirut. The 100-plus Delta operatives are highly trained, but they have been used only twice against terrorists -- both times unsuccessfully. The 1980 Iranian hostage-rescue attempt was aborted in the desert when two helicopters broke down; during the invasion of Grenada the Delta commandos failed to reach the Richmond Hill...
...agreement was announced only two days after the end of a month-long strike by United's 5,000 unionized pilots. As of this week, the carrier plans to operate more than half of the 1,550 daily flights it logged before the strike, and hopes to return to nearly full service by July 1. One passenger lure: a 50% rebate on all fares during the first week in July. By midsummer, United expects to recapture its traditional 15% share of the business...
...eccentric tycoon initially fostered rapid growth but later nearly wrecked the company with indecisiveness. Hughes sold his stock in 1966. During the 1970s, TWA ventured heavily into the hotel and food-service business, which turned out to be far more profitable than the airline. Stockholders spun off the carrier as a separate company in February...
Alternatively, the U.S. could go to the presumed root of the trouble: Iran. Carrier-based U.S. warplanes could, for instance, bomb an Iranian air base, an action that the Carter Administration considered taking if Iran had begun to kill the hostages seized at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Or the planes could hit the oil-refining and shipping facilities on Kharg Island; that would damage the Iranian economy but cause minimum loss of life...
...things, he reminded commanders to heed a requirement long on the books but often ignored: two persons must participate in the destruction of classified material. John Walker's son Michael is accused of filching classified documents out of a burn bag while serving as a seaman on the aircraft carrier Nimitz...