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...Ocean. Early last week the U.S. destroyer Lawrence, on duty near the entrance to the strait, fired warning shots when an unidentified vessel crossed its bow at a distance of about a mile. That same day the Lawrence fired into the air in front of a low-flying Iranian patrol plane and broadcast a warning to an Iranian frigate after the plane and the ship came within 2½ miles of the American destroyer. Under orders issued in late January, the U.S. asked all ships and planes in the area to stay at least five miles away from American ships...
...mixed record has caused problems for the U.S. When an army patrol shot and killed a U.S.-employed linguist and three companions in February 1983, Ambassador Frederic L. Chapin asked Mejía, who was then Ríos Montt's Defense Minister, for an explanation. But none of Mejía's responses were satisfactory. Then in November two more linguists working on a U.S. AID program were found burned to death on a rural highway. The Guatemalan government called it a highway accident, but the U.S. embassy suspected that some members of government security forces...
...jets to arrest the satellite's slow spin so that it can be grappled aboard the shuttle by the remote-controlled arm. The satellite will be overhauled inside the shuttle's cargo bay. If this first aid succeeds, Solar Max will go back out on orbital patrol and provide convincing evidence of a favorite NASA theme: that humans will be as important as robots in taking advantage of the growing scientific and industrial opportunities in space...
Another manpower problem arose during the early '80s, when community pressures for walking patrols forced the reinstitution of the traditional "cop on the beat." "Pretty soon every neighbor-hood wanted its own walking cop." Johnson says. "We just didn't have enough manpower." The problems extended from inadequate manpower through a shortage of patrol cars...
Washington has already contributed $15 million in arms and equipment to the 500 Caribbean personnel who patrol Grenada. It has also sent down eight-man Army units to train defense forces in the seven Caribbean nations that called for the U.S. invasion. But its work is far from over. At a meeting in St. George's last week, Caribbean leaders unanimously agreed that the U.S. troops would most likely have to remain at least through the elections. "As peaceful as Grenada is today," says Brathwaite, "we cannot, must not, dare not keep our guard down...