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...Navy also will get an extra cruiser (cost: at least $840 million), two more antisubmarine and antiaircraft frigates (cost: at least $490 million), one more nuclear-powered submarine (cost: about $1 billion) and a long-awaited start on a new nuclear-powered Nimitz-class carrier. That ship, which may cost $4 billion or more, is not expected to go to sea before...
...With more than-$3 million at their disposal, the Republicans are outspending the Democrats 2 to 1. Complains Carter's Texas campaign director, Robert Beckel: "When you've got that kind of money, you could organize Argentina. I kind of feel like a speedboat up against the Nimitz...
Strange doings aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz! The great carrier puts out to sea from Pearl Harbor on a routine exercise, only to encounter this really nasty bit of weather. The old salts have never seen such lightning before, or heard such a strange roar from the ocean. The disturbance does not even register on the radar screen...
...Pacific. When the ship finally emerges from the relativistic tunnel, the date is Dec. 6, 1941-Pearl Harbor eve. Once the captain (Kirk Douglas) and his mates on the bridge (Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, et al.) get the mystery all sorted out, the Nimitz, in its full nuclear glory, finds itself in a position to intervene in history. Should it try to face down the entire Japanese armada steaming toward its rendezvous with infamy...
Bitterness over low pay was stressed in a cable sent to his superiors in early May by Captain R.R. Owens, skipper of the Texas, which came home last week with the Nimitz. Said Owens: "While we have been able to cheerfully handle the arduous shipboard conditions, we rebel against our inability to provide our families back home with sufficient funds to provide for their wellbeing. It is very hard for a commanding officer to recommend to his men that they apply for food stamps or other welfare and at the same time ask them to be ready to fight...