Word: subs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Reno, and anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey, Clinton brought along a gaggle of Congressmen, both Republicans and Democrats, to help bolster support for the program. The most notable is one of the president's chief antagonists on Capitol Hill - Dennis Hastert, the Republican House Speaker. Head of a drug sub-committee, Hastert has been to Colombia half a dozen times and was instrumental in passing the aid package. Clinton probably used the time to do some bonding in advance of doing his bit for Al Gore's campaign by vetoing Republican legislation. Says a White House aide, "No doubt...
...disaster. They made no announcement for two days, then issued a bland statement that there had been a "technical fault" and the boat was on the sea bottom. After the seriousness of the accident became clearer, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev declared that there was "incontrovertible evidence" that the sub had collided with another vessel. In past years Soviet and U.S. vessels have had near collisions while spying on each other, but the Pentagon firmly rejected any suggestion that U.S. submarines were involved. Later, Russian officials dropped the collision claim and blamed an explosion in the weapons area, a theory supported...
Klebanov never truly let go of the collision theory, saying the sub hit a "huge, heavy object" of "very large tonnage" that tore open the boat's hull. But he offered no suggestions about what that might have been, and there were no reports of a surface ship in the area with severe hull damage...
...sub hasn't been lost for more than 30 years because of a rigorous certification program that gives each key piece of a submarine--including its hull, pipes, valves and flood barriers--a serial number pinpointing its source and whom to hold accountable if it fails. Critical systems are duplicated. For example, there are three ways to empty the ballast tanks on Trident missile boats. U.S. submarine crews are repeatedly drilled, ashore and afloat, with two key aims: to keep their sub safe and, if that fails, to get out alive. The top concerns for crews include knowing...
...this engineering, duplication and training fails, the U.S. Navy maintains a rescue sub perpetually on alert in San Diego. Built in the wake of the Thresher's loss, it is designed to reach trapped submariners anywhere in the world within three days. It could have come--had the Russians asked--to the Kursk's aid last week. Should American submariners find their vessel sinking, they have been trained to pull emergency stores of food and oxygen into whatever living space remains. They know that the rescue sub's goal is to hook up with a downed submarine within 72 hours...