Battleship sails from Japanese port
NZPA-Reuter Sasebo The United States Navy battleship New Jersey, armed with 32 nuclearcapable Tomahawk cruise missiles, left the Japanese port of Sasebo yesterday heading for South Korea. Japanese defence sources said the 58,000ton warship was then expected to join a naval exercise with an aircraftcarrier task force. Earlier yesterday, the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach, which also carries Tomahawks and is expected to take part in the exercise, left the United States Navy base
at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. American defence officials in Washington refused last week to confirm or deny published reports that the United States was planning a big Navy exercise in the Sea of Japan this month. The reports said the aircraft-carriers Carl Vinson and Ranger would join the New Jersey and other ships. The Soviet Union last month held its largest Pacific exercise in recent years by at least 15 ships and submarines in the Sea of Japan and off the Soviet Kurile Islands.
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