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...this week the Eisenhower arrives at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, completing a historic six-month cruise with the first group of women to serve on a combat ship. The results of the experiment have been eagerly awaited. Before the ship even began sea trials last summer, the Navy's macho diehards spread dark warnings that women, ordered on board by the U.S. Congress, wouldn't perform as well as men on the nuclear-powered carrier. Mixing the sexes in cramped quarters for so long, some critics argued, would turn the Ike into a Love Boat. The camaraderie...
...important point, the Navy insists, is that the Eisenhower operated more than efficiently. During a busy half-year stint, the Ike suffered no decline in combat readiness. With more than 400 women in its crew of 5,000, the ship was deployed off the coast of Haiti for the U.S. intervention last September; it then steamed to the Middle East in October, when Saddam Hussein marched Iraqi troops to the Kuwaiti border. In December it was posted in the Adriatic, where its jets patrolled the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the cruise, the ship performed "as well...
...ship's compartment. The man was caught after he showed the tape to other sailors. "We have taken the focus away from being a potent fighting ship and made the Ike a showboat," grumbled a lieutenant. "We succeeded in this deployment, but would we succeed in combat...
...movement is broad-based and a genuine good-news story for both customers and the industry. At the rich and influential house of Chanel, designer Karl Lagerfeld talks of a "new tendency for beauty to combat ugliness." New York designer Isaac Mizrahi observes: "People are in a kind of sobering position. In the '80s it was so incredibly over the top. Now it's about how can we express ourselves and still maintain a certain amount of dignity." Michael Kors, who presented a sleek, sophisticated collection in New York City last week, expresses the fashion industry's new sensitivity...
...Boston premiere ofthe 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics'Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates thestory of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate atthe hands of unseen captors. In their struggle tosurvive the incarceration, these untimely heroescourageously confront their fears and a lovingbond to combat their isolation and helplessness...