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...Pentagon has not yet decided just what the carriers should do; Washington's hope is that their mere presence near Iran will deter Khomeini and the street mobs from harming the hostages. If a greater show of force seems called for, one possibility is that the fleet would blockade the narrow Straits of Hormuz, through which tankers carry Iran's oil to foreign markets. A blockade would cut off Iran's international revenues, but it would also produce a serious world shortage of petroleum and a sharp increase in prices...
...fleet will take no offensive action so long as all the hostages remain alive. But Administration officials suggest that if even one hostage is killed, attacks on Iranian targets would begin speedily. The first assault might well be an air strike aimed at destroying the 77 F-14 jets and Phoenix missiles sold to Iran by the U.S. when the Shah was in power. The rationale...
...saddest reports to come from this year's pre-season football camp was the news that Ron Jellison, the fleet California-born running back who sat out last year after fracturing his skull in a 1978 intrasquad scrimmage, had been advised by team doctors not to attempt a comeback...
...send the seventh fleet in there--we have to negotiate. But we should apply as much military and economic pressure as possible," one student said...
...London's acknowledged beauties-and a lady who could speak her mind. She would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when the general testily said that the French fleet would like to attack the British as well as the Germans. Nor was Winston spared her temper. Once after a battle over his spendthrift habits, she hurled a dish of spinach at his head. She missed...