Word: midair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carriers are Ronald Reagan's big stick of intimidation against Middle East terrorism. With a dozen support ships around each carrier and 70 to 85 planes soaring off each ship, the biggest threat to the fleet seems to be a midair or midsea collision. "We'll need a traffic cop," jokes a Pentagon official. The Saratoga should return to the U.S. in April. Still, this effort to impress Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi is not cheap: operating a carrier at sea costs about...
...typewriter. Toad loved his Smith-Corona. He played upon it like a flamboyant pianist. Now he massaged the keyboard tenderly through a quiet phrase, now he banged it operatically, thundering along to the chinging bell at the end of the line, where his left arm would abruptly fire into midair with a flourish and fling home the carriage return...
...Ronald Reagan, it was a time to savor a triumph, not indulge in nagging second thoughts. At an intimate Georgetown dinner party for the President, guests took turns heartily congratulating him for the bold midair interception of the four Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. In Boise, admiring supporters erupted in cheers as Reagan declared he was "most proud" of the U.S. Navy F-14 pilots who were able to pinpoint their EgyptAir Boeing 737 target in the Mediterranean darkness and, as he put it puckishly, "persuade" it to land in Italy. His declaration that "there...
...swift and sure midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by four Navy fighters provided the armed forces with a much needed victory to boast about. It answers "the cheap-shot artists who try to portray the military as not being able to tie their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look...
...staged the bombing raid, the F-15s remained in reserve some 500 miles away. Near the island of Malta, an Israeli naval vessel stood ready to launch helicopters to rescue any downed Israeli pilots. After the mission was completed, the F-16s were again refueled in midair by the tankers, which were escorted home...