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...into their waters of a Chinese ship of corpses. The torpedo boat, together with 15 other vessels, had been taking part in a routine Chinese naval exercise when two crew members seized control. Apparently, they intended to take the ship to South Korea, and from there they hoped to defect to Taiwan. Their plan, however, had gone awry as the mutiny turned into a gunfight in which the six crew members were killed and both mutineers were wounded...
Bach, as vital a man as there ever was, has inevitably become part of that myth: in the Thomaskirche, his stained-glass window is near Luther's. In East Germany, as in most of the world, he has overshadowed his countryman Handel, who had the effrontery to defect to the West before it was politically necessary. And there Bach is praised for giving "artistic expression to the people's aspirations and endeavors for peace." But he is impervious to political manipulation, as Luther and Wagner are not. He was not seduced by the devil, who tempted so many others...
What rescued The Hunt from the publishing boneyard was Clancy's gripping narrative. Navy buffs and thriller adepts have been mesmerized by the story of Soviet Submarine Captain Marko Ramius, who seeks to defect to the U.S., bringing a billion-dollar present with him. This is Red October, a ballistic- missile-armed submarine, or "boomer," equipped with a new, silent propulsion system. In a message to his superior in Moscow, Ramius challenges the whole Soviet navy to catch him. He then takes off for Norfolk, together with a group of equally disaffected officers and an unsuspecting crew. Moscow dispatches...
...need to earn a living made him put his literary ambitions aside for the insurance business. The writing urge resurfaced in 1976 when Clancy read about a mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy. The ship's political officer and a group of enlisted men had attempted to defect to Sweden, and most of them had been killed. "That mutiny rattled around in my head for years," Clancy recalls. Eventually the frigate was imagined as a submarine, and the novel began to take shape. He completed a first draft in six months. The finished manuscript was read by two submarine officers...
...discontinuity. The same conservative instinct is an important reason why there is no codified process for changes in command and no real tradition of how such changes should be made. The Kremlin's obsession with continuity is confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise...