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...prerevolutionary Tsar being honored in a Communist country? History provides the explanation: Alexander II freed the Bulgarians from five centuries of Turkish rule in 1878, at a cost of 200,000 Russian lives. Unlike most of Eastern Europe, Bulgaria regards the U.S.S.R. as its liberator, not its conqueror. The two countries share the Cyrillic alphabet and speak similar languages. Though it is difficult to measure the affection felt by the Bulgarian people toward the Soviet government, there is no doubt about the official devotion of Sofia toward Moscow. As Todor Zhivkov, 71, leader of the Balkan country for the past...
...when Bendix made a hefty $1.5 billion bid for the promising Martin Marietta Corp. But Marietta fought the unfriendly bid, other industrial giants stepped into the fray, and in the end the tables were turned on Agee A third company, Allied Corp., bought Bendix last Friday, turning Agee from conqueror to conquered in the space of a month...
...more firepower than any ship of the British fleet. But unknown to the 1,042 men aboard the Argentine warship, the cruiser-was being watched. Shadowing the Belgrano, as it had been doing for days, was a British nuclear-powered attack submarine, H.M.S. Conqueror...
...Fleet Commander Woodward, who passed it on to London. Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, chief of the British defense staff, took the news at once to the five-member emergency War Cabinet of Prime Minister Thatcher, which was meeting at 10 Downing Street. Lewin's recommendation was that the Conqueror act to defend the British task force. The War Cabinet agreed, and the order to fire was sent back to Commander Wraith...
...Tigerfish MK 24 torpedo used by the British nuclear submarine H.M.S. Conqueror to sink the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is typical of the new weapons. Built in Britain, the Tigerfish is 21 ft. long, weighs 3,400 Ibs. and has a range of approximately 20 miles. After launch, it speeds toward its target at about 58 m.p.h., playing out thin wires attached to the submarine's computer and changing direction as the computer dictates...