Word: siting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pavloff's victory in the national competition qualifies him to go to Lyon, France in November for the Trophee des Amateurs Gourmands. The Hotel Sofitel, the site of the national competition, awarded Pavloff and the nine other finalists an all-expense-paid trips to Lyon, spending money, and personal translators. Pavloff also is entitled to a chef who will act as his assistant during the competition...
...absolutely certain that builders or their workers are having to make a deal," says a senior police official. For a share of the contract price, the builder is guaranteed "security" for his project. If he fails to pay, his equipment may be damaged, his workers scared off the work site or his family threatened. Some of the more innovative extremist groups have founded legitimate security firms for the builders to hire...
...Soviets have good reason to be vigilant. In 1968 a Soviet submarine sank in the Pacific. Six years later the CIA sent a supersecret salvage platform ship, the Glomar Explorer, to the site; it succeeded in raising part of the ship, along with the bodies of 70 Soviet crewmen, from 3 miles down. But no missiles or codes are known to have been recovered. Today, says Navy Spokesman Lieut. Ken Ross, the Glomar Explorer is "being retained for Navy contingency use at the Maritime Administration site in Suisun Bay, Calif. If there's something that comes up and we determine...
...perhaps the Soviet Union could also reach the sub. "Down to 20,000 ft., nothing's sacred anymore," says Frank Busby, an expert in deep-sea operations. "You can't put these ((vessels)) down there and call them a memorial anymore because we can reach anything." But reaching the site may be the easy part. At those depths, pressures are 4 tons p.s.i., and deep-sea submersibles are unsuited for raising large objects. Even if the sub's hull is crushed and the missiles are lying in the open on the ocean floor, the task is daunting and extremely expensive...
Soviet scientists and cosmonauts may have left their frustrated U.S. counterparts behind for now, but Kremlin military brass are hardly breathing any easier. American military space technology still far surpasses that of the Soviets. U.S. KH-11 satellites have sent back such detailed photographs of the Soviets' Krasnoyarsk radar site in Siberia that even the recent inspection by U.S. Congressmen added little to what was known. U.S. monitoring systems follow Soviet naval ships around the world and may eventually be able to spot Soviet submarines underwater. U.S. satellites can track mobile Soviet ICBMs, and would be instrumental in verifying Moscow...