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...week, a submariner's worst nightmare became reality: fire broke out. The sub managed to reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts and paddled away. A small flotilla of Soviet vessels sped to pick up survivors and also tried to tow the sub to safety. But rough seas and winds gusting to 46 m.p.h. soon dashed the effort. About six hours after the emergency began, the vessel sank in water more than 4,500 ft. deep, where even its tough hull would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas Disaster | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Beck, at 142-lbs., wrestled his best match of the year when he sped off with a 14-5 blowout over Nick Lyon...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Crush Yale, 28-8 | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...resisting arrest. He was given a $1,200 fine and ordered to stage a benefit concert for abused children. In September, Brown stormed into an insurance company next door to his office, waving a gun and complaining that strangers were using his bathroom. When the police arrived, Brown sped away in his pickup truck, touching off a high-speed chase through Georgia and South Carolina that ended only after the cops shot out his tires. The city of Augusta, which had honored him three years ago with a James Brown Appreciation Day, turned on him. "Enough was enough," says Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Brother No. 155413 | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Bitsis said Lloyd and a passenger on his motorcycle sped past a police officer, who gave chase. Then the motorcycle headed down a street where another officer, William Luzano, was taking a report from a crime victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Shooting Sparks Riot in Miami | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...first knock-out relay team of Mia Costello, Tri-Captain Linda Suhs, Sheila Findley and Mary Quinn sped through the 100-yd. medley relay for the win in a deja vu appearance as last year's defending Eastern Champion team...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Aquawomen Clip Eagles In Opener | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

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