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...classic case of ships not quite passing in the night. Darkness had fallen, and the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was plying the Sea of Japan after taking part in "Team Spirit '84" military exercises with South Korean forces. Suddenly, the 80,000-ton conventionally powered vessel seemed to shudder from stem to stern. Something solid had struck it. Crewmen rushed to the starboard side just in time to catch a glimpse of what had hit the ship. A submarine without running lights was slinking off into the black waters...
...next morning helicopters from the aircraft carrier identified the offending vessel as a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine of the Victor class. The 5,000-ton craft was limping home on the surface at a speed of 3 knots, under the escort of a Soviet cruiser flying a salvage flag. A telltale dent marked the spot where the submarine had grazed the bottom of the Kitty Hawk while trying to pass underneath. That is no easy feat; the huge carrier draws 50 feet of water...
...close for comfort. Had the submarine come a few inches closer to the surface, there might have been a catastrophic collision. Escort ships following the Kitty Hawk had monitored the sub for several days but apparently broke off contact, and the Soviets managed to get to the aircraft carrier undetected. U.S. officials explained that there is little they can do in peacetime to prevent a Soviet vessel from going where it chooses...
...sorting. In 1971, a postal worker processed 120,212 pieces a year; now a person handles 173,320. Output will go up even more when high-speed optical scanners, which read addresses, convert them into printed bar codes and then send them off for automatic sorting into 136,000 carrier routes, are fully installed...
...Caribbean, the U.S. aircraft carrier America and three escort ships left port in the Virgin Islands and cruised toward the Central American coast, where they will take part in readiness exercises this week. The task force is smaller than U.S. carrier fleets that plied the same waters seven months ago on White House orders, but the intention is the same: to warn the Marxist governments of nearby Nicaragua and Cuba that the U.S. will brook no interference in El Salvador, particularly during the elections...