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...Scotland's Drumlanrig Castle. Insurers put up a $160,000 reward for the recovery of the work. Deep Disaster RUSSIA An aging Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, with the loss of up to 9 of its 10 crew members. The vessel was being towed to a scrapyard when pontoons supporting it broke away in a heavy storm, sending the sub down in 170 m of water. Navy officials claimed that the submarine's nuclear reactor posed no environmental threat. Great Catch THE SOUTHERN OCEAN An Uruguayan fishing vessel suspected of poaching the prized Patagonian toothfish from Australian...
...replaced his passion for the flat tax with sermons on abortion, winning few converts. John McCain, the maverick Arizona Senator, announced his semi-candidacy last week by talking about campaign-finance reform, and former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander jumped in (again). The party's absolutist wing looks like a scrapyard. Last week it saw its darling, Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri, announce that he would not seek the nomination...
British Transport Secretary John MacGregor called the prevalence of substandard vessels an "international disgrace" -- a statement corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...
...advantage of a recent boom in recycling, which generates an estimated $700 million a year, by selling it to scrap dealers who lately have raised their prices. Last year in Detroit, the price of aluminum leaped from 20 cents to 45 cents per lb. "When they go to the scrapyard," fumes Detroit community activist Pat Bosch, "no questions are asked." For law-abiding citizens already beleaguered by drug- trafficking, arson and the indifference of the city administration, aluminum thievery is the last straw. "They're devastating the city," complains Sophie Sroczynski, who had siding torn from her garage...
...Queen being an ocean liner headed for mothballs. Keeping it afloat is a moronic purser (Larry Storch), whose schemes, like catering bar mitzvahs in port, are always being thwarted by the prissy first officer (Billy De Wolfe). The boat is shipshape; the gags are strictly for the scrapyard. Sheldon Leonard, a producer with, as they say, a good track record (The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy), has brought in a very usual and savorless crime series called My Friend Tony (NBC). He may have undone himself in attempting to reduce the violence. The hero is a stodgy professor...