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Aerial reconnaissance pictures were taken of likely landing sites in Iran. In November a group of the big Sikorsky choppers was placed aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz. On Jan. 8 the President continued the deception, declaring at a press conference that a military rescue "would almost certainly end in failure and almost certainly end in the death of the hostages...
...ships fluctuates as vessels rotate in and out of Camel Station (as American sailors have nicknamed the area), the U.S. has had as many as 27 warships there simultaneously. More crucial than raw figures is the power of the U.S. force. On patrol last week were the super-carriers Nimitz (which recently replaced Kitty Hawk), Midway and Coral Sea, with their full battle groups of guided missile cruisers, destroyers, frigates, oilers and other support vessels. Along with them cruised undisclosed numbers of U.S. submarines. The Navy is keeping its ships at Camel Station at highest readiness status, and there...
...Orson Welles' Romance Festival chugs on and the bag is not consistently wonderful but rather. Has its Moments Two of them this weekend are unconditionally 100 per cent guaranteed to draw enough safety walter from an audience's ducts to float the U.S.S. Nimitz. Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey's 1937 surefire crier about an old, disowned couple is something of a can't lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play...
...estimates that the Soviets lead the world in antiship missiles, introduction of new technologies to warships and numbers of attack submarines. Last year the Russians launched their first aircraft carrier. At 45,000 tons, it is about half as large as the big U.S. carriers like the nuclear-propelled Nimitz. It will be able to bring helicopters and vertical-takeoff and -landing aircraft to the scene of a battle but lacks the catapult needed to launch fixed-wing fighters or bombers...
Addis Attaché. Proxmire's case is strongest when most specific. Among other examples, he cites a $4 billion cost overrun for the Minuteman II ICBM; a quadrupling of the original estimated price for the nuclear carrier Nimitz; hundreds of millions misspent on the bug-infested Sheridan and MBT-70 tanks; the $2 billion jump-to more than $5 billion-in the cost of C-5A Galaxy cargo planes...