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Blast destroys a naval depot...
...biggie." Those were the words that a U.S. intelligence official used last week to describe the explosion that ripped through the Soviet naval munitions depot at Severomorsk, 900 miles north of Moscow. Judging from the sketchy details that are known, he was not exaggerating. The blast apparently caused such destruction last month that Western analysts initially thought that a nuclear bomb had gone off. After studying satellite photos and other intelligence, they finally concluded that the big bang had come from the explosion of a large cache of conventional weapons...
Photographer Catherine Leroy, on assignment for TIME, recently spent seven days on a supertanker as it plied the perilous waters of the Persian Gulf to take on 260,000 tons of crude oil at the Iranian oil depot at Kharg Island. The Swedish-built ship, which is owned by Americans and registered in Liberia, is currently chartered by a Japanese firm to carry its cargo to Europe. At the request of the ship's owners, TIME agreed not to identify their vessel. Leroy's report...
Macon, smack in the middle of Georgia, has long been a railroad city. The old train depot downtown, finished just in time for the farewells and homecomings of World War I doughboys, is defunct but still grand. The Georgia Power Co. plans to spend $3 million making its interior a trendy warren of shops and offices. The neoclassical façade is to remain unchanged-almost. Georgia Power wants to cover up the anachronistic inscription-COLORED WAITING ROOM-engraved over one entranceway. Says a company spokesman: "We don't want to offend any of our black customers...
...force planes bombed an army base in Benghazi after all or part of the garrison mutinied. Reports from foreign residents say that about 20 soldiers were killed. But the biggest disruption occurred on March 25 when a mysterious explosion heavily damaged the army's arms and ammunition depot at El Abjar, outside Benghazi. Western observers believe the destruction at El Abjar, the main supply base for Libyan forces on the eastern border with Egypt, could have been caused by Egyptian saboteurs...