Word: subs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sub was believed to be armed with three nuclear missiles and several torpedoes. U.S. intelligence officials were determined to examine the weapons and the codes aboard-without the knowledge of the Russians. The Glomar Explorer stationed itself over the sub and extended a length of pipe with giant claws on the end to pick up the wreck on the bottom. The barge was then submerged to a depth of about 100ft., where it was to cradle the salvaged sub. But there was a hitch. When the sub was halfway to the surface its damaged hull cracked in two. The after...
...equipment aboard the sub worth analyzing was removed-including three SSN5 surface-to-surface ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, and several torpedoes. Though study of these prizes was begun on board the Glomar Explorer, the detailed examination took place elsewhere, most likely at the U.S. base on Midway Island. There experts were able to carefully go over the sub's equipment. Says a Navy official: "It was dated somewhat, but still a technical mother lode of stuff...
...friend whose opinions I respect. At no time was there the slightest duplicity. Indeed, it is the suggestion of duplicity in the tenor of the Crimson article that compels me to respond, at great length, with considerable inconvenience and personal agitation, to what should at most be a minor sub-editorial matter. Obviously my poem, which resides in a sphere surrounded by silence, has been, willy-nilly, invested with political meaning, and my connection to the poem has imposed a legalistic, heteronomous context on a series of my previously unrelated, pure, free acts...
This analysis has serious shortcomings. Wilson resists attempts to examine the psychological causes of crime, relegating alienation and frustration to lesser, indirect roles. Also ignored are the presence of sub-cultures in which certain kinds of criminal behavior are more socially acceptable than in other communities. Housebreaking, a serious crime to the affluent, is nothing more than a weekend diversion for many blue-collar youths...
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