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...captain drinking in Valdez bars on the afternoon before his ship set sail. The prosecution also introduced tests taken eleven hours after the crash that showed Hazelwood with a blood-alcohol level of 0.061%, higher than the Coast Guard's 0.04% limit for a seaman operating a moving vessel. But Hazelwood's lawyers suggested he might have imbibed after the accident occurred to settle his badly shattered nerves. The captain never took the witness stand. In the end the jury decided the evidence was too ambiguous for a conviction...
...emerge is the public's rejection of Communist Party candidates. Gorbachev hopes to save the Union by decreasing the importance of the much hated party and enhancing the powers of the central, duly elected government. Like an admiral on a sinking warship, he is transferring his flag to another vessel...
Even so, it may come as a surprise to find a career submariner in any navy, let alone the Soviet fleet, as determined as Ramius is to preserve the peaceful status quo. His vessel -- larger than a World War II aircraft carrier -- has been modified so that it can run faster and more quietly than any other submersible, which means it has something no solo submarine has ever had: first-strike capability. It can glide in close to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, undetected, and start lobbing nuclear missiles at major population centers. Or threaten to. Being the sort...
...picking up an eerie metallic message: the echoes of a Soviet submarine nosing through the black depths of the Atlantic 40 miles away. A BC- 10 computer "washes" data through its analyzers and, amazingly, tells the technician not only the type of sub he is hearing but the specific vessel...
...central question is whether one person can be singled out for blame in the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The state believes so, basing its case on the tenet that a ship's captain is ultimately responsible for his vessel. Hazelwood's history of alcohol abuse has not helped his credibility. Nor has the fact that he left the bridge in the critical minutes before the accident. Hazelwood's defense is nonetheless trying, as it wades through a witness list loaded with 112 names, to persuade the jury that the captain was a scapegoat. Says Michael Chalos, a defense...