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...Nimitz was back at last after a nine-month cruise, including 144 consecutive days at sea, most of them spent on patrol in the Indian Ocean. The ill-fated Sea Stallion helicopters had taken off from her flight deck on their attempt to rescue the 53 American hostages from their captors in Iran. Not since World War II had any U.S. warship been at sea so long...
...excitement of the homecoming could not mask the fatigue of the 5,500 men on the Nimitz and the 934 on its two guided-missile cruiser escorts, the California and the Texas. The patrol had been an extraordinarily arduous and lonely duty. In his talk, Carter thanked the crew for projecting "the presence of the U.S. Government and its military forces at a time . . . crucial to the maintenance of peace." He then took the occasion for an announcement that implicitly acknowledged that the services of the carrier's crew and similar American forces deserved better recognition from the nation...
...treatment accorded whites and blacks accused of racially sensitive crimes. The series of what blacks took as insults began on Jan. 9 of last year when Florida State Highway Patrolman Willie T. Jones, 37, who is white, was accused of taking an eleven-year-old black girl into his patrol car and molesting her. He did not contest the charge and the county prosecutor's office acquiesced in a deal whereby Jones would receive psychiatric help rather than go to jail...
Actually, Congress posted very picky bouncers at the Golden Door in 1921, when it began the quota system. But official strictures on immigration have become a kind of charade. The flow of illegal immigrants persists, merely inconvenienced by the understaffed Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol. And the U.S. has often made massive exceptions to the law in order to admit refugees-36,000 from Hungary after the 1956 uprising, for example, and 872,000 from Cuba since the Castro revolution. Future upheavals will undoubtedly produce massive new exceptions. A new law, the Refugee Act of 1980, attempts...
...Quinn, the Flyers have emphasized youth and speed. Quinn salted his lineup with savvy veterans to steady his high-powered youngsters. Second-year Center Ken Linseman, a loudmouthed, 5-ft. 10½-in. blur called "the Rat," anchors the Flyers' top-scoring line, known, naturally, as "the Rat Patrol." Bobby Clarke, 30, captain of Philadelphia's championship teams in the mid-'70s, anchors the entire team. Of his once and future centers, Quinn says: "Since the beginning of the year, we've thought this was a real good blend...