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...would dive, resurface and send off clouds of heavy smoke, while support ships waited near by. Finally an oceangoing Soviet tug took the obviously stricken sub in hand and began towing it at a snail's pace in the general direction of Vladivostok, headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. As the Japanese press closely followed the drama, defense officials in Tokyo quietly pondered a couple of minor mysteries: What was the warship, of a type capable of launching nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, doing only 56 miles off Japan's westerly Oki Island? And what had gone wrong...
After the sub's eventual rescue, Japanese officials noted that the Golf II class dates back as far as 20 years, meaning that the mystery vessel could be one of the oldest-and perhaps most decrepit-in the Soviets' 127-sub Pacific Fleet. The presence of that formidable force has made the Sea of Japan a hub of subsurface activity and, not coincidentally, the scene of a growing number of underwater accidents. Last week's incident took place not far from where the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine in March...
There, Hanggi told the crowd that they were in Texas not only to get together and chant about how bad Reagan was, but to do some serious work. Everybody at the Tent City, along with another hundred allies, boarded a fleet of buses and vans Sunday morning and spread out over the poor neighborhoods of Dallas. Going door to door in groups of two along carefully mapped out "turfs", the Tent City dwellers registered over 12,000 new voters in Dallas. The largest single-day voter registration drive in the history of Texas was not short-lived either. Back...
...crew had every right to be proud. With that uneventful touchdown, NASA could claim a strikingly successful debut for Discovery, the newest member of its three-shuttle fleet. For six exhausting days on Flight 41D, six astronauts tackled the busiest shuttle agenda ever, twice staying up past their assigned bedtimes to troubleshoot glitches. Every task, however, from knocking a pesky hunk of ice off the ship's hull to operating manually a drugmaking machine that was supposed to be controlled by computers, was completed on time...
...have had the time or the freedom to apprentice themselves to the small number of American boatbuilders who work in wood. "I'd like nothing better than to take a year off and learn the trade," says Alan ("Dusty") Rhoades, a Navy lieutenant commander attached to Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk, Va. "But I've got a family to support, kids to put through college. I needed an alternative...