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Loaded and Ready. The nuclear-powered, 85,350-ton "Big E," the world's largest fighting ship and first nuclear-powered surface war vessel, had been performing routine maneuvers on her way to a fourth tour in Viet Nam waters. It was 0819 hours. On the stern, 30 Navy aircraft were ready to be catapulted aloft. Loaded with 500-lb. bombs, rockets and air-to-air missiles, the planes of Carrier Air Wing Nine were going to wage a simulated attack on the barren island of Kahoolawe, some 85 miles southeast of Honolulu...
...Viet Nam, substantial forces are likely to remain in the field for many months and be withdrawn gradually. Meanwhile, the country has made expensive commitments to advanced-weapons systems. Some items: the conversion of 31 Polaris submarines (cost: $248 million) to carry 496 Poseidon missiles at $80 million per vessel, the first six of which are to take place this year; the beginning of procurement for components of the Sentinel and the anti-ballistic missile system, ultimately estimated at $5.5 billion; the development of the new Minuteman III to carry the MIRV (Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles), $4.5 billion...
...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Two sea lions, Pepito and Cristobal, make friends with Jacques Cousteau & Co. aboard the research vessel Calypso until the lure of the sea becomes stronger than human friendship...
...with money he has stolen, Jan buys passage on a vessel piloted by a fisherman friend. But if the fisherman is Peter, there is no Christ. -In a scene that seems less photographed than etched, the boat drifts through clutches of floating corpses; the sky and ocean are pitiless, and death is the only redemption...
...serve as the opening to one of Godfrey Blunden's chapters. They might well be the emblem of his book. The lost works that he has sought to retrieve from oblivion are those of the crew of H.M.S. Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific...