Word: sunkenness
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...seems strangely applicable to Harvard. Its educational ocean is filled with more than the normal complement of sharks and barracuda, electric eels and suckers: and to most people, just how they will find their place in the land of Neptune-in-Cambridge is as mysterious as the location of sunken Atlantis...
...afford to spend $400 million raising worthless pieces of a sunken Russian submarine [March 31], surely we can afford to spend half that amount in Cambodia and perhaps preserve our credibility as an ally...
...explain its embarrassing link with "Operation Leprechaun," in which undercover agents, including at least one curvaceous woman, gathered information on the sexual and drinking habits of 30 public figures in the Miami area. There are morning-after doubts that the CIA'S Herculean effort to raise a sunken Soviet submarine could have produced much valuable intelligence. The notion grows that it might have been a $350 million project for men still playing James Bond...
...sunken submarine offered those opportunities. The diesel-driven ship of the G or Golf class (vintage 1958-62) had long since been made obsolescent by the Soviet nuclear-powered submarines of the Yankee and Delta classes. Nonetheless, in the superstructure behind its tall conning tower, the submarine typically carried three nuclear-tipped missiles of the Serb class, which has a 650-mile range and a 500 kiloton warhead. At the time the SALT I negotiations were about to start, and an examination of the Serb warheads would have given U.S. experts an invaluable insight into the state of Soviet nuclear...
...unusual undercover task. By phone calls, visits and through his emissaries, Colby made contact with a number of news organizations. His purpose: to persuade them, on national security grounds, not to print a story that they all knew about-the attempt by the CIA to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean bottom...