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When the shrieking Klaxon sounded general quarters, many of the Nimitz's 5,000 crewmen were asleep. Remembered one enlisted man: "They didn't say this wasn't a drill, but when the guy came over the p.a. system he was stuttering, and I knew then something was badly screwed up." Fire-fighting crews clambered across the deck and started laying down gallons of water and "purple K" foam, but to no immediate effect: the blaze had begun its own chain reaction...
...corpses picked from the smoldering havoc; the 14th body was never found. With 48 men in sick bay, the casualties exceeded the capacities of the medical facilities. Medevac helicopters arrived at 4:30 a.m. and minutes later took off for Jacksonville with the 21 most seriously wounded crewmen. Then the reckoning of hardware destruction began: the incinerated Prowler, packed with ten jamming transmitters and computerized receivers, was a burned and twisted hulk, a $68 million loss; two of the $36 million F-14s were totaled, three others badly damaged; four A-7 Corsair II jet fighters were inoperative; ten other...
...crisis is the latest in a recent series of setbacks to U.S.-Japanese relations. In April the U.S. nuclear submarine George Washington collided with and sank the Japanese freighter Nissho Mam, killing two Japanese crewmen-and then left the scene. In May, during joint U.S.Japanese naval exercises, U.S. vessels were blamed for cutting expensive salmon-fishing lines. Last week it appeared that Japanese ships or shadowing Soviet vessels might have been responsible, but the exercises had already been suspended. Finally, Suzuki's apparently successful visit to Washington in May turned into an embarrassment after a joint communique referred...
...charged with menace. Israeli Phantom fighter-bombers, firing air-to-air missiles, had just brought down a Syrian helicopter as it took off from an airbase near Riyaq in east central Lebanon. Later in the day, a second Israeli air attack downed another Syrian helicopter, killing all four crewmen aboard. Before wheeling back to Israel, according to Lebanese claims that were strongly denied by Jerusalem, the Israeli jets bombed and strafed Syrian positions above the city of Zahle, where Syrian peace-keeping forces and Lebanese Christian militiamen, armed by Jerusalem, have been locked in a battle for supremacy over...
...world. I spent a whole day returning a string of rentals for one president because "they didn't feel right." Even Uncle Walter kept us moving, often for no good reason. We spent hours in department stores shopping for the just-right pillow he could sit on during broadcasts. Crewmen were driven to the racetrack and to liquor stores, and once I even had to collect a bigwig's poodle clutching mistress from the airport...