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Crowds lined the shores of the Charles Saturday to watch another crude flotilla of makeshift rafts exchange rounds of water balloons, fruit vegetables, eggs and less familiar objects. Thankfully, there were no dead mice this year...
...statement was a thinly disguised promise to fire on any Argentine ships inside the 200-mile limit. Later, Thatcher increased the pressure by ordering a second, smaller flotilla to leave for the Falklands. Along with support vessels, the new force included the Atlantic Conveyor, an 18,000-ton container ship modified to carry 18 Harrier jump jets, and the newly recommissioned H.M.S. Intrepid, an amphibious assault vessel capable of carrying as many as 700 troops, eight landing craft and five helicopters. In addition, the government requisitioned the cruise liner Uganda, which last week disembarked 1,295 vacationing passengers in Naples...
Lacking serious competition in New London for their first race of the year, the Crimson oarsmen had only to stretch their legs and shake off the effects of a long winter's hibernation. But even after torpedoing the Coast Guard flotilla with an impressive time of 5:52, Harvard's sluggishness showed...
...antiquated gray submarine was towed part of the way down the channel it had navigated on its own ten days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime...
Huddled below decks was the head of the entire Soviet submarine flotilla at Baltiysk...