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Samantha, then 11, won Soviet hearts during a twoweek tour arranged after she sent a letter to Andropov expressing her fears of nuclear war. The Kremlin quickly made her a symbol of the desire of many U.S. citizens to end the nuclear-arms race. That symbol clearly grew all the more poignant--and powerful--with her tragically early death...
...learned of the diversion scheme last July and managed to catch up with some of the less important gear, packaged as burglar-alarm equipment bound for Turkey. Officials who tailed the hot computer hardware are virtually certain the remainder of the equipment is now in East Germany or the Soviet Union. LAWSUITS Better Late Than Never...
...first the accident appeared to have chilling overtones of Chernobyl. A Soviet Yankee I-class submarine on patrol in the Atlantic had been crippled by an explosion and fire that had killed three crew members, and had surfaced about 550 miles east of Bermuda. Of immediate concern: the sub was powered by twin nuclear reactors and carried up to 16 SS-N-6 ballistic missiles, each tipped with two nuclear warheads...
...three days, though apparently taking in water, the stricken sub managed to stay afloat, limping eastward under its own power before accepting a tow from one of several Soviet merchant ships that had arrived on the scene. Then, early last week, the towline was disconnected, and the remaining 120 crew members were evacuated under the glare of red and green safety flares. The 9,600-ton sub disappeared under the waves, sinking some 18,000 ft. to the bottom...
...turned out, there were few parallels with last spring's disaster at Chernobyl. For one thing, Mikhail Gorbachev notified Ronald Reagan of the accident the day after it happened, winning praise from the President and the State Department for his candor. More important, Soviet officials announced that there was no danger of radioactive contamination of the environment--a claim quickly supported by U.S. experts, who took samplings of air and water around the site...