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WASHINGTON--President Bush announced yesterday that he will hold a shipboard summit in the Mediterranean with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev December 2 and 3 "to put up our feet and talk" informally prior to a full-blown superpower meeting next year...
Several critical technical questions remain unanswered. The air control tower at Bandar Abbas had been talking regularly by radio to the Airbus, but the Navy did not explain why the Vincennes failed to monitor these communications. Shipboard commercial-flight schedules showed that Iran Air Flight 655 should be in the air about this time, but nobody reacted when an officer standing behind Rogers in the CIC raised the possibility that the oncoming airplane was a commercial flight...
Compliance will not be easy. Merchant fleets dump at least 450,000 plastic containers overboard every day. The U.S. Navy, which accounts for four tons of plastic daily, has canceled a contract for 11 million plastic shopping bags, and is testing a shipboard trash compactor. It is also developing a waste processor that can melt plastics and turn them into bricks. The Navy's projected cost of meeting the treaty provision: at least $1 million a ship. Supporters of the Marpol treaty readily acknowledge that it will not totally eliminate plastic pollution. "If a guy goes out on deck late...
...most sensitive target was Montreal-based Paramax Electronics, a subsidiary of the U.S. defense contractor Unisys and the prime subcontractor on a frigate- building project for the Canadian navy. In that role, Paramax has access to highly classified American technology involving radar and sonar capabilities and computers that control shipboard weapons systems...
...showpiece of the operation was the Navy's Deep Drone, a sophisticated undersea robot. The drone was connected to the U.S. Navy tug Apache by an umbilical cord that transmitted commands and returned data from an array of cameras and sensors to shipboard computers and monitors. An acoustical locating system, accurate to within 20 in., will guide scientists in assembling a photomosaic of the more than 2,000 high-resolution still photographs the drone has taken of the ship's hull. In addition, a sonar scan will be used to make a false-color three-dimensional computer...