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...flattop is 1,000 ft. long and weighs 65,000 tons, a monster by Soviet standards but considerably smaller than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (1,092 ft., 94,000 tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like...
...right away. Preparing the carrier for combat will take four more years, while a second Soviet carrier being built at the Black Sea shipyard will not be launched until 1989. Thus, for the moment, the flattop score remains firmly in favor of the U.S., which currently has 13 of the vessels on operational status. ISRAEL Warming Up the Cold Peace...
...whirlwind week of diplomacy for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Before meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Tokyo, he spent three days in Canada, ostensibly exploring how the two countries could work together to promote world trade. But there was another purpose for the visit. Nakasone wanted assurances that forthcoming U.S.-Canadian talks aimed at negotiating a free-trade agreement would not cut Japan off from its Canadian markets...
HOSPITALIZED. Yelena Bonner, 62, wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov, who had campaigned for 18 months by letters and with repeated hunger strikes so that she would be allowed to visit the West for medical treatment; in good condition, after surgery to bypass six of her coronary arteries, a number her doctors called unusually high; in Boston...
...touched by the long-awaited release of Soviet Dissident Shcharansky. I admire the psychological stamina that kept him going for those eight long years. But the person who deserves the loudest applause is his wife Avital, for her ceaseless efforts to obtain his freedom. Jerry Sahagun Los Angeles...