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Those two sensational items are the ones that have made the papers in the last couple of days. Summers, a British hack of the Fleet Street school, makes his living buzzing around the carcasses of high American scandal. His "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" had the head of the FBI dressing up in ballgowns. If you read Summers' Nixon book more carefully (I don't urge it), you find, among other things, that the author may be among the half dozen people on earth who believe that Alger Hiss may in fact have been innocent...
...Because of poor maintenance levels across much of the fleet, the fleet can't put to sea very often, so personnel are less well trained," says Joanna Kidd, naval analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Kursk, as one of the newest and most important boats in the fleet, would have received enough to keep up maintenance but probably not enough to keep up vital seatime training for navy men. "It's speculation, but their reactions might have been slow," says Kidd. Similarly, the rescue efforts may have suffered from lack of training. "If most...
Perhaps that's why Putin had so little to say as the magnitude of the disaster unfolded. He left for his summer-vacation retreat in Sochi on the day of the accident and sent no messages of condolence to the fleet or to the furious families of the missing men. His officially published schedule told of phone conversations with foreign leaders but made no mention of briefings, consultations or expressions of concern about the Kursk. On Wednesday, dressed casually and looking tanned, he met with visiting academics to discuss at relaxed length problems of science, research and the brain drain...
...navy commander in chief, to accept help. The Russians promptly invited Norway and Britain to send equipment, but by then it was already a near certainty that any survivors would perish before the rescuers could reach the area. Indeed, shortly before the British team arrived on Saturday, the Northern Fleet commander said, "The critical line of survivability has been closed...
...British pilots' union said it has "very real doubts" about the necessity of the grounding given that British Airways' planes have improvements that the Air France fleet does not. According to financial analysts, the Concorde has also been a moneymaker for BA, contributing around $300 million to annual revenues and about $30 million to operating profits. Air France squeaked out an estimated $2 million in profit on $125 million in revenues last year...