Word: fire
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WASHINGTON--A nuclear-powered Soviet submarine appears to have sunk more than 300 miles off the coast of Norway after suffering an underwater accident and catching fire, U.S. and Norwegian officials said yesterday...
...There are indications there was a major fire aboard, but we have no details. We understand there has been a loss of life, but we can't confirm how many," Fitzwater said. "We express the sympathy of the United States government to the Soviet government for any loss of life involved...
Nathan M. Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
...accident with the Mike comes two-and-a-quarter-years after a Soviet "Yankee-class" missile submarine sank off the coast of North Carolina after an explosion and fire. That fire was believed to have involved the liquid fuel propellant inside a nuclear missile...
...Congressional bill that would eventually require students to complete at least one year of national or community service in order to receive federal financial aid for postsecondary education has come under fire from prominent educators during the past month...