Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME has learned that the Victor III-class Soviet sub was forced to surface after its screw propellers became entangled in a 2-to 3-in.-thick steel undersea cable that was being used by a U.S. surveillance frigate to track the sub's movements. The mechanical mishap was I only the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks for the Soviet fleet. In 1981 a diesel powered Soviet sub snooping in a restricted zone off the Swedish coast ran aground and had to be pulled to a safer anchor-age by Swedish tugboats. According to U.S. intelligence, another...
...past decade each left more than 2,000 dead. One reason for the terrible toll: the walls of peasant homes are typically made of rough stones held together with a mixture of mud and straw, while their roofs consist of layers of soil as much as four feet thick. When the earth rumbles, the rocks come loose and the roof collapses. Anyone inside is buried alive...
...Park, Bishop's favorite gathering place to address his people. The Marines spread out in firing positions alongside tanks and personnel carriers, while Grenadians sat looking back from their front steps on the opposite hillside. A U.S. tank sprang into life, firing into a hill with thick green vegetation, making a direct hit on an ammo dump and an antiaircraft position. One young man who sat watching the scene admitted that he too was once for the revolution. Now, reluctantly, he welcomed the invaders. "It's a sad solution, but there seemed to have been no other...
...post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past...
...former Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman of the Social Democrats. Brandt told the cheering mass of his countrymen: "In Germany and in Europe, we need not more medium rockets but fewer ones. So we say no to more nuclear missiles." Certain powerful people, he continued, "have got it into their thick heads that deployment of Pershing Us is more important than reducing...