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...prospect of being forced to close and relocate the two bases causes shudders in Washington. Because no single location offers the advantages of Clark, the air base's functions would probably have to be distributed among facilities in Japan and Guam. An alternative for the naval station could be found at Palau. But no other site offers a skilled labor force that could duplicate the huge volume and the low cost of maintenance performed at Subic. The two bases are, as a report by Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies puts it, "simply irreplaceable...
...carried by one man and is designed to destroy dams, bridges and similar installations. According to William Arkin, a defense specialist with the Institute for Policy Studies, a private Washington-based research organization, the U.S. has about 400 of these devices in Europe, South Korea, Guam and the U.S. Until recently, the military also produced a 400-lb. nuclear device, the medium atomic demolition munition (MADM), capable of destroying a medium-size city...
...Peking in less than 20 hours. But Reagan was in no hurry. He was loose and mellow even by his own easygoing standards. The Reagans took a week getting from the White House to China, putting down for rest stops at their California ranch, in Hawaii and then on Guam...
...route to Guam, Air Force One flight attendants handed out Taiwanese chopsticks ("A mistake," said a White House spokesman). The President slipped on a cool white guayabera shirt, while Nancy looked rather like an empress in her maroon lounging robe. As soon as Air Force One cut through the cloud cover and roared down toward Peking's airport, though, the balmy Pacific interlude was unquestionably over. The Chinese afternoon was dark and unseasonably chilly 54° F). Still, Reagan bounded coatless out of the 707, looking cheery as ever. The 19-mile drive into Peking must have been...
...telephone lines had been knocked out in the fighting, four of the reporters-Don Bohning of the Miami Herald, Edward Cody of the Washington Post, Morris Thompson of Newsday and Greg Chamberlain of Britain's Guardian-accepted a U.S. military offer to be airlifted to the U.S.S. Guam, a helicopter carrier, in the belief that they could file their dispatches back to the U.S. from there. Instead, the reporters found themselves, as Bohning later put it, "more or less captives of the U.S. Navy," forbidden to send their stories. Not until Thursday did they get back to Grenada...