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...befriended hundreds of other foreign leaders in his career. After the Soviets opted for Malta, Bush told aides, "I want a Camp David atmosphere on that ship." To work his magic free of prying eyes and ears, he has ordered reporters to stay far from the U.S. cruiser Belknap and the Soviet cruiser Slava. "He wants to be able to get up from the table and go for a walk with Gorbachev around the ship if he wants to," said a senior official...
...Maltese patrol boats circled, and scuba divers checked the waters as Bush landed by helicopter on the American guided-missile cruiser USS Belknap, his command post and the Sunday meeting site for the summit. The summit will open this morning on the Soviet guided missile cruiser Slava...
...F/A-18 pilot from the U.S.S. Midway accidentally dropped a 500-lb. bomb on the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Reeves, injuring five sailors...
...sources, insisting on anonymity, also said the most likely U.S. ship for the talks was the cruiser Belknap, the 547-foot long, missile-armed flagship of the Sixth Fleet, based in the Mediterranean. There was speculation Bush would make the ship his headquarters and spend the night there...
...exhaust note, as you wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...