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...Crimson yesterday received the following dispatch from naval warfare correspondent Dix Wistling, now stationed amid the ongoing submarine crisis in the Baltic...
...although Moscow scoffed at the notion, calling it a hoax designed to disrupt Scandinavian-Soviet relations. The naval base on Musk Island is Sweden's largest and most sensitive; its radar keeps constant watch over the country's eastern coastline, which faces the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea. If the vessel were from the Soviet bloc, its probable mission was to gather as many details as possible about the base and the surrounding waters. Washington believes that in the event of war the Soviets would try to invade Norway through Sweden, hoping to control the northern Atlantic...
...week's end the hunted sub was believed to be still trapped in the bay, exact whereabouts and identity unknown. There were unconfirmed reports that a Soviet spy plane was crisscrossing the Baltic, presumably to attempt to make radio contact with the mystery vessel. Whatever it was, wherever it was, Stockholm remained determined to find out, no matter how long it took. "It's a. war of nerves," said Captain Sven Carlsson, the Swedish navy spokesman. "Time is on our side.'' -By James Kelly. Reported by Mary Johnson/Stockholm
DIED. Ivan Bagramian, 84, leading Soviet military strategist during World War II and commander of the First Baltic Army; in Moscow. Armenian-born Marshal Bagramian became a national hero in the Soviet Union when in the winter and spring of 1943-44 he directed the campaign that led to the taking of the Baltic republics and the breaking of the Nazi invasion on that front...
...government campaign seemed at first to have succeeded: an eerie calm settled over most of Poland's cities on the morning of the demonstrations. By midafternoon, however, groups of protesters had begun to gather. In Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born two years ago, 4,000 employees filed out of the Lenin shipyard to lay flowers on a towering, triple-spired memorial to workers killed in the 1970 riots. Police and soldiers ringed the monument to prevent other demonstrators from joining the workers. Suddenly, the paramilitary police force, known as ZOMO, rolled toward the monument in three...