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...week ended, it appeared that no U.S. decision had yet been taken. But one high-ranking West European official said, "We would not be surprised if the military option is shortly engaged." Like the U.S. interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the alleged hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro to freedom, that move would send an unmistakable message to Libya, Abu Nidal, the P.L.O. and any other sources of terrorism: such acts against U.S. citizens will not go unanswered. Whether that would have any effect on discouraging future terrorism was quite another question. --By William E. Smith. Reported...
...cache was evidently earmarked for settlers in the French territory of New Caledonia. More than 20 people have died over the past 14 months in clashes between French settlers and indigenous Melanesians seeking independence from France. The ship's cook, Michel Four, 29, pleaded guilty to illegal possession of the munitions, but he insisted that profits, not politics, had motivated him. "I need money because I want to marry a young New Zealander," he told an Auckland court. In Paris, the incident drew yawns. Noted a French official: "A boat has been stopped in New Zealand with several bullets...
...long after rebellious barons pressured King John into signing the Magna Carta. Abandoned in 1978 and slated for demolition, it may be reborn in Orange County, Calif. The Episcopal congregation of St. Matthews-by-the-Sea in Corona del Mar wants to make the cross-shaped church its home, shipping it from the windswept North Sea coastal village, about 130 miles north of London, through the Panama Canal to California. Though small (64 members), St. Matthews is wealthy enough to raise the estimated $750,000 required to dismantle, pack and ship the 729-year-old limestone edifice. It will...
...explosion of an ammunition dump and of air-force bombing runs on Aden's airport and harbor, as rebel troops advanced on the presidential palace. On Friday, the royal yacht Britannia interrupted a journey to New Zealand to help evacuate foreigners. Small boats transported about 300 people to the ship before fierce fighting halted the rescue operation...
...tons, a monster by Soviet standards but considerably smaller than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (1,092 ft., 94,000 tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like the 37,000-ton Minsk, are equipped only for short-takeoff planes...