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...bold act of piracy was as bizarre as it was successful. As three spanking new Iranian missile boats steamed leisurely in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern Spanish port of Cadiz last week, they were pursued by a slow-going Spanish tugboat. When the tug reached one of the French-built warships, about 15 raiders from the commercial vessel stormed aboard. They hauled down the flag of Iran's Islamic Republic and replaced it with the green, white and red banner, emblazoned with the imperial, sword-bearing lion of the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The boarders heartily sang...
...example, despite the economy's problems, the coalition pledged to enforce the observance of the Jewish Sabbath by port workers in the city of Haifa, where tourist-filled cruise ships often arrive on Saturdays; by employees of other government-run companies; and even by the national airline El Al, whose employees promptly threatened to strike if the pledge should be carried out. In addition, the coalition promised wage hikes for rabbis and increased aid for students in religious schools. More than that, it offered military exemptions to "newly observant" Jews who want to study Orthodox theology-an astonishing gesture...
...huge ships, which can host at least 90 fighter-bombers, have tremendous striking power, can stay at sea for months and, according to one Navy study, could be knocked out of action only by six missile hits. But given the time they need in port for maintenance and the Navy's preference for using them in tandem, even a 15-carrier fleet could keep only five or six task forces at sea at the same time. Also, military reformers argue that the sinking of a single Nimitz-class carrier could tilt the naval balance to the U.S.S.R. in an entire...
...couldn't lick a stamp. That is not so. But America's armed forces have planes that cannot fly for lack of spare parts and warships that are being kept in port by a shortage of sailors to crew them. U.S. Army units in Europe, by some estimates, would run out of ammunition after only two weeks of conventional war. Worst of all, perhaps, the U.S. has an announced commitment to oppose by force any Soviet move toward the Persian Gulf oilfields, but today might have to resort to tactical nuclear weapons to block such a thrust...
...sort of legislation can only make a dent in the Viet Nam vet's profound sense of exclusion, his bruised conviction that America ?a nation that cherishes almost an ideology of its own fairness?has done him deeply wrong. The vet's first port of call, the Veterans Administration, seems to him abundant evidence that the nation he risked his skin for cares very little in return. The VA is, they say, a $23 billion-a-year bureaucracy devoted mainly to older vets (the World War II generation), a social service agency dispensing health care not to the wounded...