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Meanwhile, picture operations manager Kevin McVea was on the scene in St. * Louis to transmit color images directly from the debate, among them the cover photo. By 12:30 a.m. the pictures were beamed via satellite to eight printing plants around the country, including our facility in Saratoga Springs, New York, where a fleet of four twin-engine planes was waiting to airlift the magazines to major cities for early Monday morning arrival. In addition, dozens of extra trucks were hired to speed delivery to our wholesale distributors...
...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
George Bush quickly called the agreement a "cave-in" by Saddam. In part, it was. Saddam relented in the face of signs that the U.S. was reaching for its guns. Over the weekend, with the carrier Independence already in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon moved the Saratoga to the eastern Mediterranean and dispatched Patriot launchers and missiles to Kuwait. But Baghdad's two-steps- forward-one-step-back confrontation with Washington allowed Saddam for the first time have a say in the makeup of a U.N. inspection team. It also let him claim a triumph over...
...threats between Washington and Baghdad and frantic negotiations at U.N. headquarters in New York City to seek Iraqi compliance. By week's end the U.S., Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq. Shore leave in the Mediterranean for crew members of the aircraft carrier Saratoga was canceled, President Bush met with top defense advisers, and officials in several Western capitals huddled to phrase an ultimatum...
Women are clearly worried -- and angry. Sheila Swanson, 49, of Saratoga, Calif., had implants inserted three years ago after a double mastectomy for breast cancer. Now she says, "I'm frightened. At this point, emotionally, I don't know how I could take another operation." Cindy Pearson, of the National Women's Health Network in Washington, has been pushing the FDA to act on this issue since 1983, and she is livid: "They've allowed over half a million women to get into this horrible quandary because they didn't order long-term studies earlier. If this were heart valves...