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...Tokyo sent a Foreign Ministry official, Seishiro Eto, to Washington to meet with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Eto persuaded the U.S. to continue the search for the missing crew members, an important gesture for Japan. The Americans assume that all nine are dead, probably trapped inside the sunken ship. But in Uwajima they are still emphatically spoken of as "missing," not "deceased...
...civilians were aboard, they did little more than "pretend to drive" the submarine during the rapid ascent drill, Navy officers said. Waddle and his crew were still responsible for scouring the surface with their sonar and periscope before launching the "emergency main ballast blow." The choppy waters and the ship's white color may have made detecting the trawler difficult. But Navy officers said that if, as the trawler's crew said, their vessel was steaming at 11 knots, it should have been generating enough noise to make sonar detection easy...
...visit was arranged by retired Admiral Richard Macke, who was forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...
...Thompson: I'm sort of comforted by the fact that the sub crew saw the ship about an hour before impact. So you have a track on this ship, and then you lose it. To me, it makes a lot more sense than, gee, we never saw it. At least they did see it; at least the sonar is working...
...eventual solution. But even without a grand plan to support that aim, moves are afoot to tinker with the existing situation. By next year, large regional transmission organizations (RTOS) will be in place across North America to remove some of the jurisdictional clutter. "Right now, if you want to ship power from El Paso [Texas] to B.C., you have to settle 10 or 12 different contracts," says Dennis Eyre, executive director of the Western Systems Coordinating Council in Salt Lake City, Utah, an organization that groups producers and suppliers in 14 Western states, plus British Columbia and Alberta, and Baja...