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...attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World War II. The Edinburgh was located with sonar devices in 1981. Then, in what the London Sunday Times called "the greatest salvage operation in the annals of the sea," British salvors brought up most of her five-ton cargo of gold from icy waters 800 ft. deep. Hot water was constantly circulated through their diving suits to ease the extreme cold...
...recovery finally put to rest wild rumors about the nature of the cargo. A Belgian senator had declared that the Mont Louis had been carrying, among other items, arms for the Soviet Union, an allegation that was curtly dismissed by the Belgian government. By week's end 13 of the containers of uranium were aboard a salvage barge, and crews from Belgium and England were able to mop up a three-mile-long fuel-oil slick...
...expected that the other nations involved in the mine-sweeping will also pull out shortly. Who laid the mines? Most speculation centers on Libya, partly because of the circuitous route of a Libyan cargo ship that lingered in the waters for two weeks in early July. Another mystery is also puzzling naval experts: If no mines have been recovered, why have there been no explosions for more than three weeks...
...declared that the first nonpaying private passenger of some future shuttle would be an elementary or secondary school teacher. Still, NASA will not rule the skies uncontested; if anything, the competition aloft* is growing more fierce: the European Space Agency is becoming an increasingly aggressive contender for commercial cargo and the Pentagon is planning to divert some of its space payloads to its own expendable rockets. But despite some past stumbling, NASA officials vow to prevail. The proud new ship Discovery has shown them...
...kind of device that had shoved two satellites into uselessly low orbits last February. A second satellite was sprung successfully on Friday, this one employing the new so-called Frisbee launcher. The mechanism, designed especially for the shuttle, acts as an Olympian wrist, snapping off the satellite from the cargo bay in a slow spin that quickens to 30 r.p.m. once in space. The following day, a PAM-driven AT&T satellite was set free. Said Mission Control as the last cylinder twirled into the void: "That's three for three...