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WASHINGTON--A disabled Soviet nuclear submarine sank east of Bermuda before dawn yesteday, the Pentagon announced. Sources said all the crew were "presumed" to have escaped...
...sank in 18,000 feet of water 1040 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C., at 4 a.m., EDT, Braman said, almost four hours after the towing ceased and the submarine was seen to be taking on water...
...still thinks the struggle was worth it. Says Brundtland: It was tough, but "it gave me enormous strength to know that I was leading a fight on behalf of all women." Being a woman, however, does not automatically confer success. Indeed, the Labor government's popular-approval rating recently sank to 32%, fueling speculation that its days are numbered. Brundtland has been criticized for proposing new social spending at a time when low prices for Norway's government-owned North Sea oil have reduced export earnings from almost $2.1 billion in 1985 to $1.2 billion this year...
...gain, along with modest increases since 1980 when SAT scores sank to an all-time low of 890, had been widely hailed as evidence that current education reform efforts were starting to pay off in better student performance...
...liner sank instantly due to a very unfortunate blow struck by the freighter," Deputy Maritime Fleet Minister Leonid Nedyak told a press conference in Moscow less than 48 hours after the accident. "The point of impact was between the engine room and the boiler room and practically ripped the ship open." There was no time, he said, to launch lifeboats, though many of the survivors, among them Captain Markov, were able to hang on to inflatable rafts deployed from the deck...