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RUSSIA: IT'S OFFICIAL: A TORPEDO SANK THE 'KURSK'.(leaking torpedo fuel caused the catastrophic sinking of the "Kursk")(Brief Article)
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Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov, after a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on 26 July, confirmed officially that leaking torpedo fuel caused the catastrophic sinking of the "Kursk" nuclear submarine on 12 August 2000, Russian and Western news agencies reported. "The disaster occurred...because of a blank torpedo explosi...
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RUSSIA: IT'S OFFICIAL: A TORPEDO SANK THE 'KURSK'.(leaking torpedo fuel caused the catastrophic sinking of the "Kursk")(Brief Article)
IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ... that leaking torpedo fuel caused the catastrophic sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine on 12 August 2000, Russian and Western news agencies reported. The disaster occurred ... because of a blank torpedo explosion inside the fourth torpedo tube, which in turn ...
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Russian sub explosion blamed on leaking torpedo propellant
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... submarine on the seabed some 30 hours after the catastrophe, "there was already no chance to save anyone," Ustinov said at a news conference. He spoke after reporting his verdict to President Vladimir Putin, saying the accident had been triggered by a leak ...
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Snapshots: Pakistan gang-rape accused go on trial
The Scotsman
; THE trial of four men accused of gang-raping a woman on the orders of a traditional village jury began in Pakistan yesterday. Abdul Khaliq, Ghulam Farid, Faiz Mohammad and Allah Ditta, aged between 20 and 40, appeared in handcuffs in the court in the regional centre of Dera Ghazi Khan. They deny
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IN BRIEF (Page: 12, Date: 04/28/2003)
China Daily
; PARIS G8 push for tanker safety, skirt Kyoto clash in Paris The Group of Eight (G8) gave a verbal push here yesterday for a crackdown on decrepit oil tankers and reaffirmed their vows to help poorer countries. But they skirted tougher environmental issues that have divided the United States and
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Russians Caught Between Unacceptable, Unbelievable
The Washington Post
; ... not explanations. "The first thought is that this is 9/11 in Russia," said Alexei Venediktov, chief editor of the independent news radio station Echo Moskvy, "and that the government cannot acknowledge anything like a terrorist act comparable to 9/11." Venediktov ...
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DEPTHS OF DESPAIR When the Kursk, a billion-dollar Russian submarine, exploded last summer, most of its crew died in minutes. The 23 left alive spent the following days at the bottom of the icy sea waiting to be saved. Ramsey Flynn tells the stories of the entombed sailors, their anxious families and the dithering officials who left the men to die
The Independent - London
; ... hear from me, don't worry. Just watch the news on TV. They'll tell you what's going on ... long history of reluctance to take bad news to higher authorities. When he finally ... slightly more alarming. But watching the news while flat-sitting for his brother, 22 ...
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Lagrangian exploration of the California undercurrent, 1992-95
Journal of Physical Oceanography
; ... 1984), and at many locations in between. The flow continuity has not been observed directly (Mooers 1989), but is inferred from maps of hydrographic property distributions (Hickey 1979; Chelton 1984; Lynn and Simpson 1987; Tisch et al. 1992) and from direct ...
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PREPARE FOR BIG BLAST, NOT A BUST
The Columbian
; ... reserve on Evergreen Boulevard west from downtown. Others might be wise to avoid parking hassles altogether and take C-Tran shuttle buses. In past years, C-Tran transported more than 20,000 people to the reserve. Shuttles will depart from the north side of Westfield Shoppingtown ... Reserve Street north of ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Brazil on the slide.(the devaluation of Brazilian currency and the effect on the world economy)
The Economist (US)
; LONDON AND NEW YORK World markets shuddered this week when Brazil devalued its currency; they have much else to worry about, too JUST two weeks into the year, and the world's financial markets are already behaving more than a little oddly. The yen is still strong, the last thing Japan's economy
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Putin Faces Split Over Future of Russian Military
The Washington Post
; President Vladimir Putin, forced by budget pressures to shrink Russia's troubled armed forces, is facing a fundamental and increasingly open split between commanders who favor continued reliance on nuclear weapons and those arguing for a shift toward modern, conventional forces. Putin has so far
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