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...When the cruiser came three minutes later, it pulled to a stop in front of Bartley's, a block away from the bank. I waited for it to pull up, but the officer was talking to someone standing on the street. I looked across at the bank just as the man inside went from the inner part to the outer part, where the automatic tellers face the street...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, visiting Ottawa, stayed in close touch with Washington through secure communications aboard his Grumman executive jet. Meanwhile the Saratoga, accompanied by the Aegis-class guided-missile cruiser Yorktown, was steaming in the Adriatic close to the Greek-Albanian border. All told, about 25 U.S. warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, many of them with the sophisticated radar capability needed to pick the EgyptAir plane out of the heavy stream of regular Mediterranean air traffic...
...folks are our future leaders? I can't believe you go to Harvard," an incredulous patrolman Gregory Gilford of the Metropolitan District Commission (M.D.C.) said over his cruiser's loudspeaker...
...nuclear-powered Jackson is the fifth of 20 Trident submarines planned for sea duty by the 1990s. With a length of 560 ft. and a weight of 18,700 tons, it is as big as a World War II cruiser, yet it glides under the surface at speeds of more than 25 knots (comparable land speed: 28.7 m.p.h.) and is capable of operating at depths considerably greater than the 600 ft. to which Navy sources admit. Tridents carry the single most devastating element of the Triad. Stowed inside tubes that cut like shafts through the Jackson's four decks...
...ports for 29 warships. In what Senator Lloyd Bentsen called "great news for Texas," his state won some $109 million of the $264 million in annual Pentagon payroll spending. Principal beneficiary was Corpus Christi, which will get the newly refurbished World War II battleship Wisconsin, as well as a cruiser, a destroyer, a minesweeper and the Lexington, an aircraft carrier used for training purposes. Together, the ships will mean an estimated 6,500 new military and civilian jobs in the city...