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Golden retrievers, dalmations, St. Bernards. Lassie, Spuds Mackenzie, Alex from Stroh's. If I didn't know this was a crew regatta, I'd have thought it was a pet show...
During the 16 months since the Palestinian uprising erupted in the occupied territories, international news organizations have suspected Israeli security agents of posing as foreign journalists in order to penetrate Arab villages. The government denied the charges. Last March, however, a British TV crew videotaped two Israeli agents disguised as journalists as they subdued a Palestinian woman...
...battleship Iowa is believed to have made it through World War II and the Korean War without a single officer or crew member being killed in combat. But last week, in one of the worst accidents in recent U.S. military history, an explosion in the second gun turret of the 46-year-old vessel took the lives of 47 young sailors. At week's end investigators were still trying to determine the cause of the blast as the Iowa steamed toward its home port of Norfolk, Va. Defective electrical wiring, a damaged firing mechanism in the ship's gun system...
Moreover, battleships lack antisubmarine and antiaircraft capability. While there is no way to modernize the 16-in. guns with safer automatic loaders, battleships could be converted to cruise-missile platforms, reducing the number of crew members and retiring the old-fashioned bagged-powder firing system. Refitting the ships with 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret...
...Crimosn (3-1) dropped last year's HYPs by 2.3 seconds to Princeton, which enters this year's races once again with an undefeated record. Harvard has not won the Goldthwait Cup since 1980 and has already lost to Yale this year in the San Diego Crew Classic...