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PLAYERS TO WATCH WR Brandon Bowser (Sr.), WR Pete Chromiak (Sr.), DE Chris Sullivan (Sr.), DE Bill Beechum (Sr.), SS Keenan Shaw (Sr.), FS Tad Crawford (Jr.), CB Prosper Nwokocha...
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...northern Japan and urged Tokyo to consider carefully any participation in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, program. The Japanese, led by Foreign Secretary Shintaro Abe, countered by expressing "strong regret" over the Soviet military buildup in the northwestern Pacific, including the deployment of an estimated 135 SS-20 intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Discussions on economic matters proved more constructive. The two countries signed a pact governing taxes on Soviet-Japanese trade and agreed to meet annually for talks on development projects in Siberia...
...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...
Although the Soviets did not reveal what caused the explosion, it was apparently the highly volatile liquid fuel of the SS-N-6's. The fuel is "some kind of propellant combined with liquid oxygen," says Lieut. General Richard Burpee, director for operations of the Joint Staff. "Those will ignite on contact with each other, so you have to keep them separate. Handling those two fuels in the same missile is not without its hazards." Because of the danger, liquid-fueled missiles are carried only on older Soviet subs like the Yankee I class, which went into service between...