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...Memorial Drive accident occured last Tuesday morning at about 1.45 a.m., when a Massachusetts-registered car hit a University police cruiser in front of Winthrop House...
...issue was the government's decision last August to prosecute Clive Ponting, a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defense, for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. Ponting had leaked to a Labor M.P. documents that detailed the government's decision to attack the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war in 1982. Although Ponting's lawyer subsequently put the odds against acquittal at 300 to 1, the jury found the defendant not guilty...
...President's widow his grief at the loss of "a dear and cherished friendship which was forged in the fire of war." Perhaps he also remembered not just the great battles won but the small exchanges: the time Roosevelt sent him a postage stamp postmarked on the cruiser Augusta the day Churchill had climbed aboard; the time Roosevelt jokingly sent him a newspaper clipping suggesting that Churchill's wife was descended from Mormons. Or maybe he remembered their first major argument, shortly before the North African invasion. When they had worked out a compromise, as they generally...
...attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi 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...
Ever since a Royal Navy submarine torpedoed the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands war, killing 368 crewmen, the British government has maintained that the action was taken in self-defense. Information surfaced last week, however, indicating that the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had other motives for the sinking, and even considered using nuclear weapons in the conflict...