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...surfaced in recent months, several of which were apparently perpetrated not by blacks but by antiwar whites. The Navy is holding a white seaman as the suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white sailor for the sabotage. And the skipper of the ill-fated Constellation, while discussing his racial problems, admitted to newsmen that some of his ordnance-handling...
...perhaps Russia. One of the orders, for $269 million, went to General Dynamics; the federal share, which is less for advanced-technology ships like LNGS than for other models, is $64 million. The other order, for $298 million (federal share: $76 million) was bagged by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., a subsidiary of Tenneco. Plenty more is on the way: only one-sixth of the 300 ships called for by 1980 in the maritime bill have actually been ordered...
...Constitution, the Chief of Naval Operations decreed that women personnel will follow beards as an innovation aboard U.S. ships. Since federal law now forbids the presence of women aboard all but hospital ships and transports, Zumwalt chose as his pilot project the hospital ship Sanctuary, currently in drydock; 26 Navy women are slated to join the ship before it sails for the Mediterranean early next year. Zumwalt predicts: "The day will come when we'll see women serving on warships...
...During one three-week period last fall the inhabitants lived exclusively on canned beans and water rationed at survival level. A boat was donated to the Indians by Creedence Clearwater Revival, a rock group, but it nearly sank three months ago and was only recently returned from repairs in drydock...
Along with ennui, tankermen are prey to fleeting fears. In the past two months, mysterious explosions have sunk three tankers off the coast of Africa. Last week four crewmen were killed when a Swedish tanker blew up in a Hamburg drydock. Loaded, the Europoort carries enough oil to pollute beaches from Holland to Spain, though Esso strictly bans any ocean discharges except in dire emergencies. Empty, the ship is as potentially explosive as nitroglycerin, with a rich mixture of oxygen and oil fumes in its massive tanks. To prevent inadvertent explosions, a Japanese company has designed an automatic system that...