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Delta's black comedy of errors began late last month when one of its jets dropped to within 600 ft. of the Pacific Ocean after a pilot accidentally shut off the plane's engines. The following week, on a stormy night in Kentucky, a Delta flight landed in Frankfort when it was supposed to touch down in Lexington. Two days later one of the carrier's L-1011 jumbo jets was off course and reportedly came within 100 ft. of colliding with a Continental 747 over the Atlantic Ocean...
...still undergoing a final U.S. Coast Guard inspection at several undisclosed foreign ports. According to congressional sources, the first reflagged Kuwaiti ship, accompanied initially by the carrier U.S.S. Constellation and then by naval warships, will steam from the United Arab Emirates port of Khor Fakkan on the Indian Ocean to the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi, some 675 miles away. After refueling and loading up with oil, the vessel will return to Khor Fakkan. The trip will take about five days; three more convoys are planned for August. No more than five of the eleven reflagged ships will...
...restful ocean cruise...
Kuwaiti oil tankers once known as the exotic-sounding Al Rekkah and Casbah will soon be traversing the Persian Gulf bearing such familiar American names as Sea Isle City and Ocean City. But more than just the names will have changed. Under the plan President Reagan announced in the wake of Iraq's inadvertent attack on the U.S.S. Stark, eleven Kuwaiti tankers are scheduled to begin sailing under the Stars and Stripes next week. They will be captained by American skippers and escorted by American warships as they ply the world's most treacherous waterway...
...nerve jangling as making the haul between suburb and city. During a stifling spring heat wave two weeks ago, one couple in Long Island's fast-growing Suffolk County took 1 hr. 15 min. to sweat through 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic between their home and the ocean beachfront of Robert Moses State Park. Du Page County's Morton Arboretum, a popular spot for local outings, is becoming a walled fortress. Managers are erecting a series of 40-ft.-high earth berms to protect the trees and shrubs from the lethal effect of de-icing salt splashed...