Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When breaks in the stormy weather permit, cleanup crews in a bay of Alaska's Eleanor Island come ashore in landing craft meant for infantry assaults. Off Kenai Peninsula, 200 miles away, the 425-ft. Soviet ship Vaydaghubsky stalks chocolate-colored oil on the high seas. At the top of Montague Strait, south of Valdez harbor, the 17,000-ton troopship U.S.S. Juneau has set anchor. The 400 men aboard are on an expedition to cleanse oil-stricken Smith Island before the annual arrival of seals...
...vessels sucked up the crude for transfer to dredging barges. Onshore, ten-man crews hosed down rocks with heated seawater. The two-pronged drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick advanced, it stretched supply lines farther and farther from the Valdez staging base. Without proper floating barriers to protect their harbor, fishermen...
...about $110 for a day at the park). In the SuperStar Television show, you guest-star in ingeniously integrated scenes from I Love Lucy, Today, The Ed Sullivan Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss Fortune, buffeted by wind and water. As a "Foley artist" in the Monster Sound Show, you desperately improvise sound effects to accompany a comedy thriller, then dub your voice to match the moving lips of Clark Gable or Jean Harlow -- and listen in giddy horror to the results...
After the Korean War, the Iowa-class battleships were mothballed. But John Lehman, Ronald Reagan's first Navy Secretary, wanted to bring back the behemoths -- weighing in at 58,000 tons when fully loaded -- in his quest for a 600-ship Navy. Military reformers argued that battleships were obsolete, the products of a technology that has gone essentially unchanged for 50 years. The Navy proposed to modernize the vessels by replacing one of their three gun turrets with cruise-missile launch batteries. That plan was later discarded...
...name names, Rafsanjani said some of those detained were Iranian navy personnel who aided the U.S. when it was patrolling the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war. He cited an incident in September 1987, when U.S. forces attacked and boarded the Iran Ajr as the ship was laying mines...