Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three days last year, the Soviets fought to save the nuclear submarine that had been crippled by an explosion and fire. In the end, the struggle was lost; the crew was evacuated, and the 426-ft. Yankee I-class sub plunged 18,000 ft. to the bottom of the Atlantic some 600 miles east of Bermuda, taking with it as many as 16 SS-N-6 ballistic missiles, each tipped with two 500-kiloton nuclear warheads. But if the vessel is gone, it has not been forgotten. Since the sinking last Oct. 6, Soviet ships have watched over the site...
Experts say France, Britain, Japan and 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...
...Soviets have no intention of relinquishing their claims to the sub, but neither do they plan to salvage it, according to Igor Bulay, press attache at the Soviet embassy in Washington. Nor does the U.S. Navy publicly profess any interest in the sub, noting that it was an older model and that the Soviets had ample time to strip it of encrypting devices. Under international law, the Navy says, the wreck belongs to the Soviets unless they expressly abandon it. Then again, the Navy is not likely to say otherwise, even if another salvage operation is in the offing...
...have reached Harvard University's Dial-a-Menu. Today is Friday, September 24. For lunch: cream of celery soup, Italian sausage sub, sub sandwich bar, shrimp fried rice, fruit salad, salad bar, and brownies. For dinner: sirloin steak, baked ziti, O'Brien potatoes, zucchini rings, long French carrots, salad bar, and ice cream. Bon Appetit...
...major sports to benefit from the recent boom is women's basketball. A program that had struggled with sub-500 records since its inception, the women cagers rebounded for two consecutive winning seasons and a share of an Ivy title...