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...getting there. The site's famous ruins are buried deep in the Guatemalan jungle, and the 40-min. flight from Guatemala City affords sightseers spectacular views of the lush terrain. But last Saturday morning that journey ended in tragedy as a twin-engine Caravelle operated by the private carrier Aerovias crashed on its way to the airport at Santa Elena, 37 miles south of Tikal. Early reports put the number killed at 90, including six Americans. Some of the passengers had apparently traveled to Guatemala for the swearing-in of President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, the country's first civilian...
...tons, a monster by Soviet standards but considerably smaller than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (1,092 ft., 94,000 tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like the 37,000-ton Minsk, are equipped only for short-takeoff planes...
...right away. Preparing the carrier for combat will take four more years, while a second Soviet carrier being built at the Black Sea shipyard will not be launched until 1989. Thus, for the moment, the flattop score remains firmly in favor of the U.S., which currently has 13 of the vessels on operational status. ISRAEL Warming Up the Cold Peace...
Rearden, president of Duncan Peek Inc., an Atlanta insurance brokerage, earns commissions selling policies at soaring premium rates. But when the time came to renew his own professional liability policy, his carrier wanted to jack up his $13,000 premium by 861%, to $125,000; Rearden had to scramble to find another company that would only triple his premium cost. "And that's me, and I'm in the insurance business!" wails Rearden. "That's what I mean when I say this crisis is affecting everybody...
...that is not quite the end of the story. Fidelity at first canceled the park district's insurance, but eventually renewed for much less coverage at a greatly increased premium. "Park districts are a terrible risk for any carrier to have to assume," explains Jacob. Finally, the park district, gun-shy because several suits are still pending against it, began tearing down all jungle gyms and slides over 6˝ ft. high and carting them out of the city's 513 playgrounds. "Accidents happen no matter what you do," says Park District Treasurer Jack Matthews. "In the past, when Johnny fell...