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WASHINGTON--A Navy helicopter on a routine ferry flight crashed into the Persian Gulf yesterday as it was nearing the USS LaSalle for a landing, leaving one man dead and three missing, the Pentagon said...
...Among those who have, the rollbacks may involve nonwage items, ranging from lost vacation time to shrunken health benefits. But a pay reduction remains the unkindest cut. Buffy Mello, 34, a divorced mother of three, dreads the arrival of next March because she is among 950 workers at the USS-POSCO steel mill in Pittsburg, Calif., who will suffer a 4.5% pay reduction at that time. For Mello, a junior-grade electrician, the change will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere are getting raises, but the hikes...
Although President Reagan and other top officials have vowed to proceed with the plan to allow Kuwaiti tankers to change their registry, the move has drawn criticism on Capitol Hill in the wake of the May 16 attack on the frigate USS Stark...
Reagan, in a speech to graduating high school seniors from the Chattanooga, Tenn., area said "this tragedy must never happen again," and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger acknowledged that "we don't know why" the USS Stark did not return fire on the Iraqi warplane that attacked it in the Persian Gulf...
...Reagan administration announced the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy would begin a port call in Israel on Friday and that four of the Kennedy's escort warships had been ordered to sail for home...