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...significance of Reagan's act sank in, the President relaxed. He thought it was prompted by what he called "a high degree of desperation." He felt, said his aides, "relieved and liberated." After battling with his dogged challenger for eight tough and often frustrating months, Ford could be more certain than ever of a first-ballot victory in Kansas City on Aug. 18, a less bitterly contested convention and unexpected freedom in selecting his own vice-presidential candidate...
...confirmed last week that Skipper Hamnen's big catch was a Soviet sub: a 360-ft. nuclear-powered hunter-killer of the "November" class. Trouble-ridden from the time they were first commissioned in 1958, November-class subs have rarely shown their periscopes outside Soviet waters since one sank off the English coast in 1970. Besides, the submarines-famed for their noisiness-are absurdly easy to detect. When they dive, observes one Norwegian navy officer, they sound "like the flushing of an antique toilet." The sub involved in the Sjevik incident was not even given a chance to make...
...Arabs-were already in control. With that, 242 passengers and twelve crew members began a terrifying odyssey that first took them to Libya for refueling (where a pregnant passenger was allowed to go free) and then to Uganda's Entebbe Airport. As the horror of what was happening sank in, a French oil executive moaned: "My God! This is my second skyjacking. I can't survive another...
...took the Turtle out into Long Island Sound for its maiden cruise. Squeezing himself through the hatch (the oaken vessel is only 7½ feet high), Bushnell seated himself on a horizontal beam, seized the tiller with one arm, let in water through a valve at his feet and slowly sank beneath the surface. He then maneuvered the ship forward by turning a crank that spins a two-bladed propeller (the propeller can also be turned backward). After about 20 minutes under water, Bushnell began to run out of air, but he was determined to continue as long as possible...
...Cliffe could have used Anita Bryant and then some against a UMass squad which sank Radcliffe's record to 1-3. "They were faster swimmers," captain Jane Hendricks said afterward. "We were better organized than the last time we played them, but our defense was too sporadic...