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...ship construction will begin with an extra $367 million this year and $3.8 billion in 1982. To get a faster start on refurbishing the fleet, Weinberger wants to pull two 1940s battleships, the Iowa and New Jersey, out of mothballs in the ports of Philadelphia and Bremerton, Wash., and put them back in service. He would do the same with the aircraft carrier Oriskany, now in Bremerton. It will take at least two years and cost more than $860 million to re-equip the vessels, which are up to 38 years old. But, claimed Weinberger, "no other ship...
...this a game that U.S. businessmen should be allowed, and even encouraged, to play? Or should they instead be compelled to wash their hands of it entirely, leaving the spoils to competitors in other lands? Those are some of the difficult questions that were addressed last week when the General Accounting Office released a detailed study of the impact on American business of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices...
...raids by both sides, is focused on the northern area of Ovamboland. This flat bush country near the Angolan border offers SWAPO good cover and a minimum of geographical obstacles. In other sectors, the current rainy season and swollen rivers have slowed down both sides. The rains wash away SWAPO supply routes. At a camp in the Caprivi Strip, one South African company commander complained: "I've got a patrol out there that is cut off by three rivers that flooded last night. I'm going to have to extract them...
Judy Baker Bothell, Wash...
...Sutherland's Humbert Humbert. Albee draws Nabokov's nymphet-lover as an unsympathetic egotist; Sutherland act it as the stoop shouldered, pedantic stereotype of an child-molester. And he pronounces his lines--even those which Albee has mercifully lifted verbatim from the novel--as though someone has tried to wash out his mouth with soap and left a piece of the bar in: a muffled monotony...