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...White House, supported by widespread American indignation against the Iranians, responded with a warning that "the consequences of harm to any single hostage will be extremely grave." President Carter backed up that warning by ordering the 80,000-ton carrier Kitty Hawk and five escorting warships to speed from Subic Bay in the Philippines to reinforce the carrier Midway arid twelve other ships already in the Persian Gulf area. Until last week, the White House had emphatically ruled out all talk of using military force against Iran; now it just as emphatically warned that while it was seeking a peaceful...
...exports of all kinds to Iran have fallen dramatically: from $3.7 billion in 1978 to under $1 billion this year. Iran gets about 25% of its food imports from the U.S., having bought 816,000 metric tons of American wheat in the past fiscal year. In September the Khomeini government signed a contract to double wheat purchases from Australia, to 520,000 metric tons over the next six months. The price is about $20 higher than America's $185 a ton. Meat from Australia and New Zealand, eggs from Turkey and poultry from Rumania are flowing into Iran...
...have become full-time commercial fishermen. At 6 on a late autumn evening, during the prime fishing season, almost all of them are on the move to fishing spots that may be 100 miles or more away; by morning a successful fisherman will have hauled up to half a ton of silvery whitefish, worth about $800, into his 25-ft. boat. On other nights, of course, the catch is much less. The average Indian fisherman earns about $10,000 a year...
...essential. But in a case like Iran's, it would be very difficult to achieve. Without surprise, hostages could be killed once their captors discovered that a rescue was under way. One major problem last week was that no U.S. combat units were near Iran. The 51,000-ton carrier Midway, with its 75 warplanes, was about 2,000 miles away in the Indian Ocean, and the closest Marine Amphibious Force was in the Mediterranean...
HARVARD vs. BROWN CORNELL vs. YALE PRINCETON vs. PENN DARTMOUTH vs. COLUMBIA LAST WEEK SEASON TO DATE DAVID WILSON Har 21, Brown 20 Cor 27, Yale 24 P-ton 10, Penn 3 Dart 14, Col 7 3-2 21-10 .677 MARK DIRECTOR Harv 20 Brown 16 Yale 31, Cor 14 P-ton 12, Penn 10 Dart 17, Col 7 3-2 18-13 .581 LAURA SCHANBERG Harv 17, Brown 10 Cor 21, Yale 18 P-ton 24, Penn 3 Dart 21, Col 7 3-2 18-13 .581 JOHN S. BRUCE Staff Writer Harv 10, Brown...