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There it rendezvoused with the Suroit, which had been sounding the water since June 28. The French ship had picked up an important echo that was probably associated with the Titanic. Armed with that information, Knorr scientists decided to deploy Argo at that spot. In less than a week, the researchers received the first dim video images of the Titanic that they had been praying for. "We went smack-dab over a gorgeous boiler," crowed Ballard to the Canadian television network CTV. "It was just bang, there we were...
...hours later. TASS portentously declared itself "authorized to state" that if the U.S. goes forward with an impending test of an advanced antisatellite (ASAT) weapon, which Gorbachev considers a potential component of a Star Wars defense, "the Soviet Union will consider itself free" not just to test but to deploy its own ASAT. The stick, however, was not especially menacing. The State Department pronounced the Soviet threat to have "little practical meaning" since the Soviet ASAT is already operational; in any event, American experts consider it crude and slow. The Pentagon announced that it would proceed with its ASAT test...
Other cities celebrating the latest steps in the Reagan Administration's drive to deploy a 600-ship Navy by 1990 included Pensacola, Fla., where the Navy will berth an operational carrier, and Mobile, where two destroyers, two frigates and a minesweeper will be based. In an earlier decision, the Navy said that eight vessels, including the battleship Missouri, will soon call the San Francisco Bay Area home. Said an elated San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "We have always been a Navy town, and now we will be a Navy town all over again...
...first term on ruffling feathers among the Western allies. The exponent of a nebulous "Third Road to Socialism," Papandreou irked the Reagan Administration by dubbing the U.S. the "metropolis of imperialism." Even though Greece has been a NATO member since 1952, he opposed the alliance's decision to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, while barely mentioning a deeply threatening Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles on the Continent. At times, Papandreou's anti-Western posturing reached surprising extremes. In 1983, for example, his government refused to condemn the shooting down of a Korean airliner by Soviet...
...like but insists they do not deal in arms. The magazine has, however, recruited specialists to teach the contras about weaponry and maintenance. One of its teams has been advising the rebels on how to counter Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships that the Sandinistas are expected to deploy soon...