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...Realism was very important to me," says Tom Cruise of his latest acting assignment. To prepare for the role of a trainee Navy jet fighter pilot in Top Gun, now filming on location at Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, the star of Risky Business has been tagging along with actual flyers, on the ground and in the air, in a TA-4 single-engine fighter. "The maneuvers look graceful from the ground," says the actor, "but it's amazing how violent it is inside the cockpit. You are just holding on with five Gs pulling...
...allow the Soviets to eavesdrop on coded Navy communications, and even, in the opinion of one communications expert, to change Navy messages for their own deceptive purposes. Holding the highest security clearances, Whitworth had been in charge of cryptographic centers on the carrier Enterprise and at the sprawling Alameda Naval Air Station...
Clumsy and bumbling as it evidently was, the Walker spy ring managed to operate without detection for nearly two decades. That speaks eloquently of the need for more effective measures to keep military secrets from the nation's enemies. If a bunch of amateurs could jeopardize naval communications with relative ease, the damage real professionals might do is easy to imagine. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Norfolk and Charles Pelton/San Francisco
...cartoon that showed a nurse looking out of a hospital window, saying, "Somebody get down there and stop that clown from chopping wood before he disturbs the President!" The man beside her looks down and says, "Good heavens ... that is the President!" Reagan showed the cartoon around Bethesda Naval Hospital, only to have some of the nurses lift their eyebrows over the ample proportions of the nurse in the drawing. "So when I left the hospital," Reagan said, "I told all of [the nurses] I was going to do my utmost to see that the image as portrayed was corrected...
Washington has long regarded Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as the guarantor of the strategically important U.S. military facilities at Clark Air Base, located about 60 miles northeast of Manila, and the U.S. naval station at Subic Bay. But last week the Philippine National Assembly began debate on a resolution sponsored by Marcos' Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, to abrogate the 1983 bases agreement between the two countries. Enrile was responding to a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million...