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...hazy seas off the Lebanese coast, the huge fleet steamed slowly eastward. Composed of 20 fighting ships, the armada was led by two of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz and the John F. Kennedy. The presence of so large a force in the volatile eastern Mediterranean last week inevitably raised the question: Was the U.S. preparing to launch a military assault to free all or most of the 24 foreigners, including eight Americans, held hostage by Shi'ite radicals in Lebanon...
...government was able to come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...
...Government troops seized a food-laden ship to keep supplies from reaching the rebel-held north, where the famine was most severe. In Sudan, guerrillas battling Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's regime shot down a passenger plane last August, killing 60 people, and threatened to shoot any relief aircraft that tried to land in the south, where some 2 million Sudanese needed food...
...Reagan administration announced the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy would begin a port call in Israel on Friday and that four of the Kennedy's escort warships had been ordered to sail for home...
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- U.S. warships were reported within 50 miles of Lebanon yesterday and official sources in Cyprus said civilian aircraft flying near the ships were ordered by radio to veer...