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Even then, the Soviets remained skittish: 31 hours after the rescue, signal flares lit up the night sky. The Swedes dispatched another rescue team. It found no emergency, just anxious crewmen who wanted to know the whereabouts of Commander Gushin and his navigator. Asked one Soviet sailor: "Are they your prisoners...
...took the Swedes 15 hours after the grounding to get a navy picketboat to the scene, but then the pace quickened. Armed with submachine guns, Soviet crewmen paced the deck of the sub, a diesel-powered relic from the 1950s, which lay stranded like a great gray whale. Swedish Commander Karl Andersson boarded the intruder and talked to Captain Pyotr Gushin, whose increasingly melancholy air bore a remarkable resemblance to that of Actor Theodore Bikel, the beleaguered commander of the Soviet sub in The Russians, etc. Andersson emerged to say that the Soviets "blamed their accident on an error...
...crewmen aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nassau, it was quite a workout. "You heard a little laughter in the background when some tried it for the first time," said Exercise Leader Arnold Schwarzenegger, 34, who ventured topside to stir up offshore sales of his book, Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men. His professional appraisal: "I saw a few potential Schwarzeneggers in the crowd. In fact, most of them were shipshape...
Eight days earlier, Moezi had filed a routine training flight plan with authorities. Now, with his passengers aboard, Moezi prepared to take off. A crew member who was not part of the plot nearly came across Banisadr, who was in the rear of the aircraft, but two other crewmen who had joined the conspirators seized the man. When a second innocent member of the crew came looking for the first, he too was grabbed. Precisely at 10:30 p.m., the big jet began to trundle slowly down the runway. Only then were the two captives released and told of their...
Soviet weapons-development policy, by contrast, is to freeze early on a design that can be ordered quickly into mass production. Soviet equipment has lots of flaws: its major tanks are subject to engine overheating and transmission breakdowns; their inside space is so cramped that their crewmen cannot be more than 5 ft. 5 in. tall and can load the gun only with their left hand. Quips a U.S. Army report: "The Soviets are in deep trouble if they ever run out of strong left-handed midgets." The Soviets do not seem to be worried. They are turning out tanks...