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...below the surface of the chilly Norwegian Sea, perhaps as deep as 2,000 ft., the submarine was running quietly and swiftly. With its tough titanium hull and liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactors, the 361-ft. Mike-class vessel was one of the deepest-diving and fastest-running attack subs in Moscow's fleet. Then, late one morning last week, a submariner's worst nightmare became reality: fire broke out. The sub managed to reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts...
MOSCOW--The Soviet Union said yesterday that 42 sailors were killed when a nuclear-powered submarine caught fire and exploded in the Norwegian Sea, and it disclosed that two torpedoes on board were armed with nuclear warheads...
...Soviets officially informed Norway of the accident nearly nine hours after the vessel went down. The Norwegian news agency NTB claimed Norwegian rescue helicopters could have reached the ship several hours before Soviet fishing vessels if the Soviets has asked for help promptly...
...Oslo, Defense Ministry spokesperson Erik Senstad told the news conference the Soviets declined an offer of Sea King helicopters from a Norwegian rescue base 370 miles away, but he refused to say if more lives could have been saved...
...Oslo, a Norwegian army supreme command spokesperson said the sub apparently was lost in the area between Norway and Greenland. Col. Gollow Gjeseth, press spokesperson of Norway's Supreme Defense Command, said in a telephone interview that a Norwegian observation plane sent over the area about 11 a.m. EDT saw "a Soviet ship and two rubber boats...