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Even so, it may come as a surprise to find a career submariner in any navy, let alone the Soviet fleet, as determined as Ramius is to preserve the peaceful status quo. His vessel -- larger than a World War II aircraft carrier -- has been modified so that it can run faster and more quietly than any other submersible, which means it has something no solo submarine has ever had: first-strike capability. It can glide in close to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, undetected, and start lobbing nuclear missiles at major population centers. Or threaten to. Being the sort...
...Navy could reduce its aircraft-carrier fleet from 14 to six -- essentially one battle group apiece, plus replacements and training fleets, for the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Mediterranean. That would still allow it to fulfill its traditional assignments of keeping sea-lanes open, as in the Persian Gulf, or striking quickly at a distant foe, like Libya. But the admirals will have to give up former Navy Secretary John Lehman's "maritime strategy," which sought to send U.S. warships into Soviet waters to launch strikes against targets deep inside the U.S.S.R. Saving: $21 billion...
...speaks her mind. And Fleet Street's columnists speak theirs, making the high-profile Lady Antonia a high-priority target. A succinct explanation for this targeting is offered by the London Daily Mail's senior feature writer, Geoffrey Levy: "She's an aristocrat. She's beautiful. She's a celebrity. And she is a successful writer. She is an irresistible target." Her father, the seventh Earl of Longford, sums up Fleet Street's anti-Antoniasm in a word: "Jealousy...
...fights for dissidents, criticizes Thatcherism and dodges Fleet Street attacks in her activist life with Harold Pinter...
From the Oval Office Bush will see not the scarred proletariat leaders of the old era, not the stout peasants who survived Nazi tanks, but lawyers, scientists, writers and an assortment of creative malcontents. Few will be easy to please, and none will be impressed by the Sixth Fleet. Around the White House winded staffers are predicting that Bush will want to meet them all, and if they don't find their way to Pennsylvania Avenue, he will drop in on them...