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...look at the battle-ready Sixth Fleet, Rome Correspondent Sam Allis visited the U.S. carrier Saratoga earlier in March. There, he was catapulted into the sky, with his back facing forward, in a windowless section of a transport plane. "The G forces as we shot off the deck rendered us journalists, for once, helpless, very humble people," says Allis. "As for landing, I found it rather comforting not to see just how small the flight deck looked from...
...inevitable." As President Reagan told TIME last week, "Some ships and planes will cross that line," and "anytime our men are fired upon, we fire back." And now the Navy is better prepared for whatever might follow. It has three carriers in the area: the Coral Sea, the Saratoga and the America. Together, they can launch nearly 200 of the best U.S. fighters and attack bombers...
Although the U.S. ships, part of the Saratoga's battle force, intruded upon the Soviets' internationally accepted twelve-mile territorial waters, the Navy said that the action was "neither defiant nor provocative." By charting a course that cut through Soviet waters along a curving peninsula, the vessels were merely exercising a "right of innocent passage" long accepted under maritime custom--and by the Soviet Union itself. Nonetheless, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Combs was summoned to the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow and handed a protest note. Rather than an "innocent passage," said a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman...
...carrier displaces up to 90,000 tons and carries enough conventional firepower to level all the airfields in, say, Libya. Normally, the U.S. Sixth Fleet has at most two carriers in the Mediterranean, but soon there will be three. This week, the America leaves Norfolk, Va., to join the Saratoga and the Coral...
...stick of intimidation against Middle East terrorism. With a dozen support ships around each carrier and 70 to 85 planes soaring off each ship, the biggest threat to the fleet seems to be a midair or midsea collision. "We'll need a traffic cop," jokes a Pentagon official. The Saratoga should return to the U.S. in April. Still, this effort to impress Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi is not cheap: operating a carrier at sea costs about...