Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in the stormy Baltic Sea. It went down at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, so quickly that only 139 of the 1,051 passengers on board were pulled from the water alive. The few who did not drown trapped in the dark cabins of the stricken ship died of shock and hypothermia in the 50 degrees F water...
...century's worst maritime disasters. Heading across the frigid Baltic Sea from Estonia to Sweden, the passenger ferry Estonia capsized and sank just before dawn on Wednesday. Of the roughly 1,000 people aboard, more than 900 were confirmed drowned. The tragedy, believed to have been caused by water leaking in through the retractable front-loading door, provoked the London-based International Maritime Organization to question the stability of all "roll on, roll off" ferries...
...Sweden-bound ferry that sank yesterday in the Baltic Sea killing over 800 people had been declared unseaworthy by inspectors just a day earlier. Swedish inspectors had examined the ferry in Tallinn, Estonia right before it set sail Tuesday and criticized the seals on the cargo door. No word yet on why the ferry was let out of the docks, but an investigation into one of the worst peacetime sea disasters in history continues. Most of the people on board were Swedes returning from an Estonian vacation. The tally so far: 823 dead, 126 rescued. There's little hope...
Then, with little warning, the Soviet empire collapsed, shedding its Baltic republics, and leaving small Communist dictators around the world without sponsors. Suddenly, Castro was not a lethal security threat, but only a second-rate, graying tyrant on a small island off the coast of Florida...
...sunny afternoon in central Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the Baltic, two private security guards and a trading-company executive strolled along a quiet street. They were expecting to meet a middle-aged man from St. Petersburg. In exchange for $1 million, they would hand over an 8-in. by 8-in. metal container holding highly radioactive material. But as the traders and their client were about to make their open-air swap in mid-August, 15 police officers rushed out to grab them. The police seized the 130-lb. case emitting gamma radiation. Until a specialized laboratory can examine...