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...back-channel contacts that persuaded the Administration to sell weapons to Iran in 1985 and 1986 used a similar approach. This time the purported moderates are asking for American restraint in the gulf while they try to convince Khomeini that he should back away from a confrontation. The U.S. is not buying. "We have enough experience with the Ayatullah," says a senior Administration official. "We won't let him play off his men against ours and wiggle out of this...
...hyper-rich Sultan of Brunei took possession of the boat earlier this year, when Khashoggi defaulted on a personal loan. The new owner will dock the craft from time to time near his casinos in Atlantic City. It will cost $2 million or so to dredge a deeper channel to accommodate it, but who's counting...
...NOTEBOOK: Speaking of "Sports Spotlight," Bob Lobel and WBZ-TV Channel 4 are reportedly interested in covering the final game tomorrow. There should be a lot of crowd shots...
...endless war for the hearts and channel selectors of America's bleary- eyed morning viewers, CBS has never even won a battle. From the day in 1954 when Walter Cronkite and a puppet lion named Charlemane went up against Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs on NBC's Today, through the late '70s and early '80s, when such CBS heavyweights as Hughes Rudd and Charles Kuralt were battered by ABC's Good Morning, America, the network rarely finished higher than last place...
...ship hits one of the protruding spikes, acid is released, detonating the charge. The tethers were set to keep the mines, waiting unseen but lethal, within 40 ft. or less of the surface. Navy specialists said the same type of mines had damaged the Bridgeton in the shipping channel to Kuwait in July and the Texaco Caribbean just outside the Strait of Hormuz in August. The same type of mine destroyed a supply boat in the Gulf of Oman last month, killing five crewmen...