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...board the aircraft carrier Ranger, she talked to the pilot of a one-passenger A-7 Corsair ("So you are all on your own in there?" said she. "Yes ma'am," said he) and met a sailor called Groucho Marx. The Queen (who is Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom) and Prince Philip, turned out in his Admiral of the Fleet's dress blues, had a wardroom lunch with 50 Ranger officers. The menu included lobster, despite Her Majesty's widely supposed aversion to eating shellfish abroad,* and wine, thanks to a Washington waiver...
...F/A-18. Though it can do double duty as a fighter, the main role of the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet is to replace the A-7 Corsair II in flying from carriers to bomb and strafe targets onshore. The Navy wants to order 1,366 of the new aircraft at a total cost of $41 billion, or $30 million each, triple the $9.9 million cost originally expected and also triple the cost of the latest version...
...most seriously wounded crewmen. Then the reckoning of hardware destruction began: the incinerated Prowler, packed with ten jamming transmitters and computerized receivers, was a burned and twisted hulk, a $68 million loss; two of the $36 million F-14s were totaled, three others badly damaged; four A-7 Corsair II jet fighters were inoperative; ten other jets and a helicopter were less seriously banged or gashed or charred. The aggregate loss may be upwards of $150 million...
...Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak paneling-and a wide variety of eavesdropping and recording devices. The landlubberly FBI crew who manned it, however, promptly blew out one of its engines-and thereafter pretended to be in great fear of punishment from the all-powerful sheik...
Errichetti soon escalated the level of action. He showed up last March at the Corsair, now docked in Delray Beach, Fla., to meet the legendary sheik Kambir Abdul Rahman face to face. This time he had with him New Jersey's four-term Democratic Senator, Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60. Meeting in the yacht's salon, the visitors spoke to the sheik through an interpreter, a dark-complexioned agent who conveyed their words to the sheik in something approximating Arabic. Nodding and smiling under his burnoose, the sheik, who claimed to speak little English, managed to express his uncomplicated...