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...Senator Carl Levin has noted that the Pentagon's annual report to Congress last year said the two oldest carriers in the Navy's fleet did not have to be replaced until the 1990s. At a public hearing, Levin asked Weinberger, "How in the world did these two carriers slip into the budget?" The Secretary insisted that nothing had changed; since each takes about seven years to build, he was still merely "asking for two in the '90s." He had not cited the carriers in the most recent shipbuilding schedule, he said, because "these are rolling plans." Complained Levin...
Friends and acquaintances are dragged before the People's Court and sentenced to be hanged with piano wire. Others kill themselves or slip off to the sanctuary of their family castles. But the spunky aristocrat remains at her job with a government information office, where there is less danger from the Gestapo than from Allied bombs. Her final months of war are spent as a nurse in Austria. A year later, she marries an American Army officer in a traditional Russian Orthodox service, with a French count and a German prince holding the wedding crown...
...Haig has never been one to slip quietly into the night. Last week he launched a quixotic quest to prove his own career forecast wrong, announcing that he was "throwing my helmet into the ring" for the 1988 G.O.P. nomination. At his debut press conference in New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a genial Haig laughed off a question about his pugnacity by saying, "Inside this exterior of militant, turf-conscious, excessively ambitious demeanor there's a heart as big as all outdoors." Later, snipping a ribbon to open his Manchester, N.H., headquarters, he cracked, "I'm used...
...North Sea harbor was calm but cold at 7:50 p.m. as the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise pulled out of the slip at Zeebrugge, Belgium, to begin its regular 85-mile run to the British port of Dover. Darkness had just fallen, and the 543 passengers and crew, most of them British, were settling in for the 4 1/2-hour journey. Some were day trippers returning to Dover after a promotional tour sponsored by the Sun, a London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile...
...helping rebels wage guerrilla war against Marxist governments in widely scattered areas of the globe: Afghanistan, Angola, Kampuchea. But the contras cannot carry on their rebellion without continued U.S. assistance. The Tower report shows the extent to which North, Poindexter and the CIA went, in circumventing the law, to slip arms to them during a period when Congress had forbidden any direct or indirect U.S. military assistance...