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...court and on nationwide television. It seemed to support the Government's contention that De Lorean was a willing participant in the drug deal, which involved 220 Ibs. of cocaine worth $24 million. Prosecutors had described him as a jet-setting profligate with "the conscience of a tomcat" who "shook hands with the devil...
Just how edgy the region had become was dramatized when Damascus announced that antiaircraft guns had fired at a Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet on a reconnaissance mission over Syrian-held positions in eastern Lebanon. The plane, one of four on patrol at the time, was not hit and flew safely back to the Eisenhower. Although U.S. officials down-played the incident, it was reportedly the first time the Syrians had fired on U.S. warplanes...
...promised to mount a demonstration. Not many prisoners are greeted by such a flood of sympathetic responses. But then few convicts serving life sentences are two years old; fewer still have four legs. Bubu is, in short, no common or garden-variety lawbreaker. A green-eyed tomcat, he was recently found guilty of trespassing on a neighbor's property in the Bavarian town of Passau and sentenced to confinement on his own side of the fence for life. In addition, the local court threatened Bubu's owners with a fine of up to $200,000 if their charge...
...typical beneficiary of the new insurance was a black-and-white tomcat named Jober, who owes one of his nine lives to a $19 accident policy. When Jober was hit by a car and suffered a fractured skull, the policy covered $200 of its $354 hospital bill. Jober's owners, Lou and Fran Bruno of Costa Mesa, Calif., admit they would otherwise have had second thoughts about having the expensive treatment. Said Bruno: "We were so happy to be able to tell the vet to go ahead and do what he could...
...billion for two 90,000-ton Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers. The sinking of the Sheffield, said Lehman, showed that relying on smaller aircraft carriers, as proposed by Colorado Democrat Gary Hart and other military reformers, would be dangerous. Only large carriers can transport airborne defenses, including F-14 "Tomcat" fighters and surveillance planes, that will adequately protect fleets against modern missiles. The Argentine plane carrying Exocet missiles "would not have gotten anywhere near one of our battle groups," he claimed. Lehman also insisted that the war shattered the reformers' argument that there are "low-threat" areas of potential...