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Wolper's long career has produced more than 500 films and documentaries as varied as The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. His television triumphs include Roots and The Thorn Birds. The opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics were his first public spectacles. But as an exercise in patriotism and promotion, Liberty Weekend is even more demanding...
...ship that won the Battle of Midway (1942) and points out that the Soviet Union has been launching the capital ship of the next war--the submarine. The U.S. has 100 attack subs, the Soviets three times as many. American submarines are quieter, an important advantage in undersea warfare, but the Soviets' are faster and can dive deeper...
While investigators probed the possibility of human error, the search for evidence of the technical failure that caused the Challenger explosion continued off Cape Canaveral. A flotilla of four undersea craft and ten surface ships had located and photographed parts of the right booster, scattered on the ocean floor under about 1,200 ft. of water...
...Walkers might have given the Soviets. So far, the best guess is that most of the information dealt with codes and, more important, with the way the U.S. keeps track of Soviet ships and submarines. U.S. and Soviet subs, armed with nuclear missiles, play a constant game of undersea hide-and-seek. If one side were to learn precisely how the other tracks the enemy, it might be able to develop techniques for avoiding detection. Simply knowing what details the U.S. had about how to locate Soviet submarines, which is apparently part of what the Walkers provided for a decade...
...Random House but by the Naval Institute Press (N.I.P.) of Annapolis, an academic publisher specializing in works like The Mariner's Pocket Companion and Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Second, the author is not an experienced novelist but a Maryland insurance broker who wrote his tale of high-tech undersea warfare without having served a single day in the Navy, much less aboard a submarine...