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...Rubin Design Bureau. They design fine subs, but have no experience in raising them. They tried once to raise the Komsomolets rescue capsule from 1650 meters, using a steel cable. As the cable was shortening, it lost its resiliency and broke. They lost the capsule. Now, (Rubin's head, Academician Igor) Spasski shows his magic tricks with cables and ship models in a test pool to prove how swell his Kursk project is. It is as ridiculous to watch as it is painful...
...leading politicians paid attention to his words. Sakharov was an instrumental member of the team that created the [Soviet] hydrogen bomb, but he was also one of the first people to realize the danger posed to humanity by nuclear weapons. Moved by his conscience and his ethical convictions, academician Sakharov dared to publicly challenge the all-powerful machine of the totalitarian state. In the hardest years of the Soviet system, he was not afraid to raise his voice in defense of the oppressed and persecuted. He helped many of us take a new look at our own country...
Sakharov wept. "After that," he said, "I felt myself another man. I broke with my surroundings. I understood there was no point arguing." Sakharov would no longer be an academician concerned mainly with the theory of thermonuclear reactions; instead he began a journey that would make him the world's most famous political dissident and ultimately the inspiration for the democratic movement that doomed the Soviet empire. Sakharov realized that the ideals he had pursued as a scientist--compassion, freedom, truth--could not coexist with the specter of the arms race or thrive under the authoritarian grip of state communism...
...personnel, including Lake, gave Congress inaccurate information in 1994 about the Administration's tacit endorsement of Iranian arms sales to Bosnia. McAllister says nothing has yet surfaced that would torpedo Lake's nomination, but adds: "Lake taps into a deeper wellspring of Senatorial dislike. He's a very intelligent academician who does not like to gladhand...
...personnel, including Lake, gave Congress inaccurate information in 1994 about the Administration's tacit endorsement of Iranian arms sales to Bosnia. McAllister says nothing has yet surfaced that would torpedo Lake's nomination, but adds: "Lake taps into a deeper wellspring of Senatorial dislike. He's a very intelligent academician who does not like to gladhand...