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...hostage scenario has become numbingly familiar. The sadistic videotapes of frightened captives, followed by threats of execution. The White House dispatching naval fleets or listening for some faint reply down a clogged diplomatic channel to the Middle East. Last week it was George Bush's turn to try urgent appeals and gunboat maneuvers while an angry public fulminated at American impotence. Just six months in office, Bush had become the third U.S. President in a row caught in the same wretched predicament. The latest hostage crisis, however, yielded a gruesome new image of horror: a man, bound and gagged, dangling...
...Naval Academy...
Though a string of spy cases in recent years has involved naval men, embassy guards and intelligence analysts, U.S. officials could take comfort in the belief that none had implicated an American diplomat -- until now. The State Department last week confirmed that the FBI is probing whether Felix S. Bloch, a 30-year Foreign Service veteran and the No. 2 man at the U.S. embassy in Austria from 1981 to 1987, has been working...
...expects sub mishaps to occur at a rate of one every three months, but naval experts predict the troubles will continue. "The incidents were coincidental," says James McCoy of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, "but the problem is that the frequency of this sort of incident is higher in the Soviet navy per reactor than anywhere else." Admiral Sir James Eberle, a former NATO commander, agrees: "There are indications that their engineering is not of the standards needed in the nuclear business, that their attitudes to safety means their training standards are not adequate. Soviet subs are more...
...analysis. After a distinguished career, Arthur Hartman, who was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow at the time of the suspected penetration, left the Foreign Service under a cloud. Hundreds of Marines who / had served as embassy guards in East bloc countries were grilled by agents of the Naval Investigative Service; dozens confessed to fraternizing, black- marketeering or other security violations...