Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard All-Ivy setter Margaret Change "did an exceptional job of setting." Altman said Like the rest of the squad. Change had been performing sub par Margaret touches every single ball." Altman said. "So when her play improves, everyone is better. In most sports, when one thing snaps into place, everything does...
...navy nets a spy sub, but can it be landed...
...flashing through the waves. The alert quickly went out that a foreign submarine was lurking in Swedish waters, and within hours the hunt was on. Throughout last week, dozens of ships and helicopters swept back and forth across Hars Bay, dropping depth charges to try to bring the mystery sub to the surface. "We don't intend to pat it on the back or just follow it out to sea," vowed Rear Admiral Christer Kirkegaard, leader of the hunt. "We want to find out where it came from and what it left down there...
Moscow had snooped in Swedish waters before. In October 1981, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground near a naval base at Karlskrona. Ten days later, after a humiliating interrogation of the ship's captain, the indignant Swedes hauled the sub out to sea. Last June, the Swedish navy spent 14 days in futile pursuit of a reported sub in the Gulf of Bothnia. But the latest trespass raised the greatest fears. "This is so far inside a restricted area, so close to our main naval base, that it seems more aggressive and ruthless than anything before," declared Commander...
...that reason, Swedish authorities decided to try to trap the sub, force it to the surface and question those aboard. Within a few days after the first sighting, the Swedes managed to bottle up the sub in Hars Bay, a narrow channel (12 miles long and 3 miles wide) between the mainland and Musk Island. Both major openings in the bay were blocked by a forest of submarine nets, chains and magnetic cords...