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...success with Kwon, the South Korean government has issued a price list for defectors from the North: from $10,300 for a private to $103,000 for a general. Those who bring military hardware along with them qualify for huge bonuses: Seoul offers $5.7 million for a North Korean warship and $1 million for an aircraft, but only $60 for a carbine. On top of the bonuses, Seoul promises to take care of defectors for the rest of their lives...
There is widespread support for maintaining the Navy's ability to engage when necessary in some old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy, especially in situations in which there is no direct U.S.-Soviet confrontation. An American warship making a port call or steaming off the coast of a Third World country might indeed bolster a regime friendly to Washington. In a period of mounting local tensions, sending naval units to strategically important regions, such as the Persian Gulf and eastern Mediterranean, could dissuade the Soviets from intervening...
...U.S.S. Hewitt is typical of the new style of U.S. warship. Officially, it is classified as a destroyer, but its 7,000-ton displacement is more than three times that of a World War II Fletcher-class destroyer. One deck below the bridge on this modern ship, inside the dimly lit combat information center, highly trained specialists bend over computer consoles that monitor the sonar and radar and control the guns, torpedoes and antisubmarine weapons. The 5-in. cannons fore and aft are fired by two men sitting at a console rather than by eleven World War II sailors scrambling...
...warship docked at the base thus becomes a kind of factory where a sailor puts in a day's work and then leaves, just like any civilian worker. Single enlisted men often head for the Scuttle Butt, a lively disco bearing no resemblance to the "slop chute" E.M. clubs that former Navy men knew. The new informality is striking. According to some officers, today's sailor does not always say "Yes, sir," but may just as frequently say "Yeah," and then add, "Have a nice...
...Admiral Daniel V. Gallery (ret.), 75, valorous World War II carrier commander; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. While commanding the escort carrier U.S.S. Guadalcanal in 1944, Gallery captured and took in tow a German submarine off the coast of French West Africa; it was the first enemy warship to be so nabbed by the U.S. Navy on the high seas since...