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Davis, 61, a mortgage banker and former mayor of Portsmouth, is Trible's substantive and stylistic opposite. He says Reagan's policies are responsible for "a depression, not recession." He decries the Administration's refusal to cut the defense budget, and would hold domestic cuts at current levels. A former Democratic state party chairman, Davis was an eleventh-hour draft choice for his party's nomination when the front runner's campaign ran out of steam...
...Bluff King Hal named the 130-ft., 700-ton, four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of his royal fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada. "Oh, my gentlemen, oh, my gallant men!" cried Henry, as he watched some 665 seamen and soldiers go down with the ship...
...wreck of the Mary Rose moldered for 437 years in the chilly waters of the Solent, as the nautical avenue between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth is called. Time and tide did their work: after centuries of erosion, only the starboard half of the warship's timbers remained intact in their silt-laden grave. But those blackened beams were more than enough last week to provide yet another spectacle for royal eyes. Under the anxious gaze of Prince Charles and thousands of ordinary Britons, the remains of the Mary Rose emerged from the Solent in the embrace...
...Prince Charles after the near disaster: "I was slightly horrified, [but] the important thing is to be British and stay calm." Luckily, no serious damage was done. Wrapped in plastic sheeting and constantly sprayed with sea water to prevent further decay, the Mary Rose was soon en route to Portsmouth Harbor, culminating the most expensive ($7 million) underwater archaeological salvage operation in history...
...deliberately severed as a safety precaution. After the sections are rejoined, the painstaking work of finally preserving the Mary Rose could take several years. Nonetheless, the rescuers of the Mary Rose hope that their precious find can go on display as early as next year in Portsmouth, at a drydock close to Lord Nelson's famous flagship H.M.S. Victory. Says Discoverer McKee: "This is a dream come true." - By George Russell. Reported by Arthur White/Portsmouth