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...core of support for Democrat Gary Hart during the primaries. Voters in the 25-to-34 age group now favor Reagan over Mondale by 56% to 24% in the Yankelovich poll, about the same as the voting population as a whole, yet tend to identify themselves as Democrats. Among sub-yuppies, not only is the margin for Reagan greater but so is the Republican enrollment...
Dense white smoke was spewing from its conning tower. That was a sign, Japanese officials later speculated for a time, that fire might have ignited the solid fuel of the three SSN5 missiles (range: about 750 miles) that the diesel-powered warship can carry. A day later, the sub was spotted again, this time with smoke billowing from the stern while accompanying tugs trained streams of water on it. Whatever the problem, the ship now seemed incapable of diving or even cruising on its own power...
After the sub's eventual rescue, Japanese officials noted that the Golf II class dates back as far as 20 years, meaning that the mystery vessel could be one of the oldest-and perhaps most decrepit-in the Soviets' 127-sub Pacific Fleet. The presence of that formidable force has made the Sea of Japan a hub of subsurface activity and, not coincidentally, the scene of a growing number of underwater accidents. Last week's incident took place not far from where the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine in March...
Finding a ring lost in the ocean would seem almost impossible. But according to Amaral's employer, Commercial Salvager Harvey Harrington, locating the ship was actually "embarrassingly easy." At least seven earlier expeditions had failed to find it. By contrast, Harrington's company, Sub-Sal of Reno, Nev., pinpointed the site in just three weeks last April, thanks to state-of-the-art devices that are making treasure hunters both more scientific and more successful. Where once these undersea detectives took a wild plunge with ancient charts and a hunch, the modern salvage team can reduce the search...
...Sub-Sal spent $75,000 to find the wreck, and will spend a million more to complete the salvage. The payoff: $5 million to perhaps $500 million, of which Delaware will claim 25%. About $50,000 of the salvor's initial investment went for one indispensable tool: side-scanning sonar of the type used by U.S. Navy ships searching for Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the Sea of Japan last year. Mounted in a torpedo-shaped housing, the side-scanner emits pulses horizontally as well as vertically. It is towed behind a search ship, which methodically crisscrosses...