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...caused by radiation poisoning from reactor malfunctions. Then the Soviet navy ran into a streak of bad luck. In 1983 a Charlie I class with a crew of 100 went down in the Pacific off the Kamchatka peninsula. In 1986 a Yankee I-class boat was lost east of Bermuda. With the sinking of the Mike-class vessel in April, a prototype that is believed to be the most advanced vessel built in the Soviet Union, the death toll for the decade took another leap...
Faced with such tactics and a surge in air travel, drug-enforcement agencies have beefed up their cloak-and-dagger operations. They have sent out "rovers," undercover agents dressed in anything from blazing Bermuda shorts to sleazy T shirts, to hang around airports. They have also trained friendly-looking dogs, like cairn terriers and cocker spaniels, to sniff out suspects by amiably sitting down beside them. In fact, it was a narcotics- sniffing dog that helped clip Andrew Sokolow's wings after he was detained - in Honolulu. The canine cop, Donker, found the drug courier's stash hidden...
...noted that the disease is already well established in some countries. In Haiti, 10 percent of pregnant women are infected, the same as in some parts of Africa. There are 379 AIDS cases per million people in the Bahamas and 350 per million in Bermuda, compared with 71 per million in the United States...
...participate in the "Bermuda Shoot," spectators at Briggs fill out entry forms in the back of game programs. Three individuals are selected randomly from the entrant pool for a chance to shoot a basket from mid-court, said Sports Information Director Frank Cicero...
Earlier this year the "Bermuda Shoot" prize was withheld from senior Mark Blasetti, a varsity football player, for the same reasons that prevented Brown from receiving his tickets...