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That's where we come in. We've subleased an old cruiser from the Iranian navy and plan to stock it with cold kegs of beer. Then, when we spot a warship, we'll cruise right in front of it and drop these kegs off the stern. The sailors on the warship will then radio us their Mastercard or Visa numbers and scoop up the kegs. It's sure to be a moneymaker...
...Iraq that expanded the fighting into the Persian Gulf in 1984 by initiating the tanker war, thus endangering international oil shipments. The U.S. became an inadvertent victim of the last phase of the tanker war when on May 17 an Iraqi Exocet missile hit the cruiser U.S.S. Stark, killing 37 American sailors. The incident increased Administration resolve to protect neutral shipping in the gulf by reflagging and escorting the Kuwaiti tankers. Said one U.S. official in Washington: "Iraq owes us in the gulf. It owes us the U.S.S. Stark...
Reporting on the U.S. perspective in Washington were Correspondents Michael Duffy, a pool reporter on the cruiser U.S.S. Fox in the gulf only weeks before; David Aikman; Bruce van Voorst; and Barrett Seaman. Seaman traveled from TIME's bureau to the sweltering heat of the West Wing driveway to buttonhole congressional visitors, then to the air-conditioned White House back offices. "It was hardly as dangerous as the gulf," said Seaman, "but it did bring the threat of a good old-fashioned summer cold...
...duty understood, the cyborg takes to the streets in a Ford Taurus police cruiser, detecting crimes with his computer sensors and then swiftly disposing of the perpetration...
...linchpin of the Navy's surface fleet is the high-priced ($1 billion apiece) Aegis cruiser, which Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has called the "most advanced air-defense system in the world today." Named after the mythical shield of Zeus, Aegis cruisers like the Ticonderoga and Yorktown bristle with radars and weaponry capable of tracking and attacking 18 incoming missiles at a time. The Aegis radar is linked to a computerized fire-control system for the ship's antiaircraft guns, depth charges and rocket-launched torpedoes. Just seven of these advanced vessels are in service, but another...