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...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
...Iraqi Foreign Minister said David Daliberti and William Barloon, the two Americans sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally crossing into Iraq, "can, and maybe will, appeal their case to a higher court." The two civilian aircraft mechanics were reported to be in good health by a Polish diplomat and a reporter who were allowed to visit them...
...board of the Citadel believes that women may ruin the morale of the school, the same way that the members of the Navy believed women would ruin the morale on aircraft carriers. But both men and women on the Eisenhower, the first gender-integrated aircraft carrier, praised the experiment and found no problems. Surely, the persons involved in the integration are the most qualified to point out difficulties in morale. If they find no difficulties, then we can place no credence in speculations about such problems...
...Senator Sam Nunn sketched a lurid fantasy: how terrorists might wreck the central government of the U.S. On the night of a State of the Union address, when all the top officials are in the Capitol, Nunn said, a handful of fanatics could crash a radio-controlled drone aircraft into the building, "engulfing it with chemical weapons and causing tremendous death and destruction.'' This scenario, said Nunn, "is not far-fetched,'' and the technology is all readily available...
...transport half the world's oil. He is urging Arab allies to upgrade their defenses and improve ties with the U.S. military in the face of growing military arsenals in bothIran and Iraq. Perry has warned repeatedly in recent days ofIran's military stockpile, including anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles, near the mouth of the Gulf. He had not previously mentioned chemical weapons.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays Perry is determined to show Iran and Iraq that the U.S. will not desert its Gulf allies if they come under attack...