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Since the mishap, Eastern has checked the seals of the other 27 L-1011s in its fleet to make sure that the O rings are in place. But for 48 of the passengers from Flight 855, that precaution was not enough. While their fellow travelers determinedly boarded another Eastern jet that was bound for Nassau, the 48 decided to remain shakily but safely on the ground in Miami...
...Fleet Street, other editors pounced on Stern and the rival Sunday Times with a vengeance that in this instance seemed justified. "It was the day the thunder of the Times turned into a whimper and the Sunday Times was forced to sniff the stench of self-deceit," crowed the Daily Express. Its story accused "the executives" of Stern and the Sunday Times of having committed "the biggest journalistic blunder for years...
...charging the Soviet Union with a spectacular underwater spy effort off the Swedish coast. After a six-month investigation, an official commission concluded that up to six submarines had been involved in a bold intrusion into the waters near Sweden's Musk Island naval base last October. The fleet was said to include three advanced miniature submarines, some equipped with tanklike treads for crawling along the sea floor. One of the minisubs, the report disclosed, may have crept 50 miles to the north, right into a waterway that runs through the center of Stockholm...
...between 32 ft. and 50 ft. long, carry a crew of two to five and are propelled in some cases by treads, in others by conventional screws. One small sub, the commission said, navigated the shallow channel into Stockholm's harbor during a visit by the U.S. fleet last September. The vessel came within one mile of King Carl XVI Gustaf's palace on an island in the center of the capital (see map). The Swedish navy also attributes the failure of the October search to the minisubs. "Sonar didn't work where they were concerned," says...
Prins first persuaded his new employees to call off the strike, then talked them into accepting a profit-sharing plan instead of increases in salary and benefits. Next he traded in Jefferson's aging fleet of 120 buses for 100 new red-and-white ones that carry more passengers in greater comfort and at lower cost...