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...American observers tracking the quartet of vessels was an Army pilot in an unarmed OH-6 Hughes helicopter, running quietly at 800 ft. above the water and peering at the boats through an infrared night-vision scope. He had no trouble identifying the small craft. The largest was a 150-ft.-long Corvette, a steel-hulled boat that could carry a crew of 140. There was a Swedish-built Boghammar boat, 42 ft. long, and two smaller 30-ft. vessels, dubbed Boston Whalers by U.S. seamen because of their similarity to the American fishing boats...
Iraq has stepped up its air war on Iranian shipping, hitting 15 enemy tankers since Sept. 25. It even sent Mirage jets ranging far south to Iran's Larak Island oil terminal near the gulf's mouth, where they damaged the Liberian-flagged Seawise Giant, the world's largest tanker. Iran struck back, firing two long-range missiles at Baghdad...
...speedy. When General Motors and the United Auto Workers began negotiating in late September, it seemed that only a prolonged strike could force GM to agree to a new three-year pact that would satisfy the union. But last week, after just eight days of formal meetings, the largest U.S. automaker and the union representing 335,000 GM workers came to terms...
...hard-won agreement, worked out over 16 months of arduous negotiations and an intense last-minute push to meet an Oct. 4 deadline imposed by Washington, aims at creating nothing less than the world's largest open market. If the tentative accord wins the approval of the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, all tariffs and many other restrictions that impede the flow of goods and services between the countries will vanish by 1999. President Reagan called the agreement an "important model for other nations seeking to improve their trading relationships." To Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was simply...
...crisis forced manufacturers to change tactics. To reap the benefits of lower wages along the Pacific Rim, many Japanese firms built new factories offshore. Matsushita, the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturer, makes motors in Malaysia, batteries in Indonesia and facsimile machines in Singapore. Sony plans to move one-third of its production out of Japan...