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THE BANNERGRAPHIC, Octobers, 1986

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Soviet nuclear sub sinks; crew believed safe

WASHINGTON (AP) - A disabled Soviet nuclear submarine sank east of Bermuda before dawn today, the Pentagon announced. Sources said all the crew were “presumed” to have escaped. A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Marvin Braman, said survivors were seen being picked up by Soviet merchant ships, one of which had been towing the Yankee-class sub. Two officials, who demanded anonymity, said that fewer than 24 men were believed left on board for the towing operation and that life

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Floodwaters have begun receding in northeastern Illinois where this Des Plaines car dealership lived up to its name under three

Storms ease across U.S. midsection

Thousands return as water recedes

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service TULSA, Okla. Thousands of people began returning to waterlogged homes Sunday as the waters receded after some of the worst flooding ever recorded in northeastern Oklahoma. Many of the 15,000 residents of Tulsa and nearby communities like Jenks, Bixby and Bartlesville who were evacuated in the last few days returned home. But local officials said some areas could remain flooded for several days. Red Cross officials, who provided shelter for 1,500 people Saturday night, were keeping 17 shelters open for those who still needed aid.

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rafts were seen moving toward a merchant ship before the sub finally slipped beneath the surface three days after it was wracked by fire and an explosion. “It is presumed that everybody got off, but we don’t know for sure,” said one source. “They certainly had enough time to get off, because this boat was clearly slipping lower in the water more than three hours before it went under.” The sub sank in 18,000 feet of water 1,040 nautical miles east of Cape Hat-

feet of water. Gov. James Thompson called out members of the Illinois National Guard late last week and over the weekend to assist

Attention turned to the areas downstream from Tulsa where the Arkansas, Grand and Verdigris rivers intersect. The waters are expected to crest at 4 feet, or 6 feet above flood stage, on Monday morning. Civil defense officials in Muskogee County, about 50 miles south of here, said that up to 1,000 people, most of them in the town of Webbers Falls, might have to be evacuated Monday. But Terry Jobe, a civil defense spokesman, said the situation did not appear as perilous as it did a day ago, and added, “We feel we have enough time to prepare.” Storms have battered the nation’s midsection for the past two weeks, resulting in flooding and swollen rivers throughout the Middle West. Northeastern Illinois was hit particularly hard, and 18,000 people have been forced from their homes there and in parts of Arkansas, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. The floods have caused millions of dollars in damage, and the potential damage to crops could run into hundreds of millions. Butthe flooding here had a different origin, resulting from a moist local storm system that combined with the remains of Hurricane Payne over the past week. Its heaviest concentrations as much

Toboggan run is subject of lawsuit

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A renovated toboggan run at Pokagon

teras, N.C., at 4 a.m., EDT, Braman said, almost four hours after the towing ceased and the submarine was seen to be taking on water. There was no immediate word on casualties from the sinking. One official said earlier, however, that many of the sub’s crew had been evacuated to nearby Soviet merchant ships. The sub normally carries about 120 people. In Moscow, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said he had “no information at all about those reports” of the sinking.

as 12 to 14 inches in a day in some spots fell on the Arkansas River watershed northwest of here. Weather forecasters said there was a chance of light rain here through Monday, but officials expressed cautious optimism that the worst of the flooding was over. “We’re in better shape than we were yesterday,” said Cheryl Blonsky, a spokesman for the American Red Cross, which had 600 staff members and volunteer workers here. “Now it’s a matter of waiting and seeing what happens with the weather.” “Whatever rain we’re expecting in the next few days won’t be much more than a nuisance,” said Jim Irwin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service here. “It’s just a matter of time before the dams get back to normal and people are able to go home and clean up.” Despite the widespread flooding in Oklahoma and damage that has been estimated at $l7O million, no deaths or serious injuries have been reported. For the first time in the state’s recorded history, every major river in Oklahoma had some flooding. The flooding in Tulsa marked the first time the Arkansas River has left its banks since the Keystone Dam was completed in 1964.

State Park which has been the subject of a contracting lawsuit is scheduled to open on Thanksgiving Day. The state says that the two-year project cost about $250,000 more than original contracts because the architect, engineer and construction firm hired in 1984 created a run on which ice would not stick. The lawsuit seeks $700,000 in damages from the design firm, Robert E. Curry & Associates Inc. of Plainfield; architect Richard L. Battershell ; Simerman Construction Co.

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Braman said a Navy P3-C patrol plane reported the sinking more than 500 miles north of Bermuda and 80 miles from the point where Friday’s fire and explosion killed three men. Braman noted that the sub had encountered rough seas as it was being towed through the Atlantic. He added that “a reasonably prudent individual would have to assume that (with) the kind of damage that was shown in the photos, ...you’re going to be taking on some water.” One source had noted that the sub-

the transportation of 2,900 families forced from their homes. (AP Laserphoto)

At the peak of the storm, water released through the dam was surging through at a rate of 320,000 cubic feet a second, three times the previous record flow. That surge was reduced steadily through the day; late Sunday afternoon it was about 170,000 cubic feet a second. The waters were receding dramatically even in the hardest-hit parts of the state. But if the worst damage predictions did not come to pass, the order of business for many people Monday was the grim task of assessing the damage. In Jenks, a town 10 miles south of Tulsa, where 5,000 residents were evacuated Saturday, Bob Ramey, a Tulsa firefighter, glumly surveyed his house and his in-laws’ mobile home about 300 feet from the Arkansas River. Both were flooded up to the roof. He said 20 of his Fire Department colleagues showed up uninvited to help him evacuate his belongings, but added that he had no flood insurance to cover the damage to his home. “We built this place in 1973 and the biggest flood anyone around here has seen was a third of this,” he said. Gov. George Nigh toured flooded parts of the state in a helicopter to assess the damage.

Inc. of Fort Wayne; and Fireman’s Insurance Co. of Newark N. J., which supplied surety for a contractor’s bond to Simerman. After renovations were completed, park officials found that the manufactured ice failed to stick to the new stainless steel surface of the track. To rectify the problem, Paul R. Hosier Inc. of Indianapolis was hired for $150,000. Hosier president Howard F. Shaefer said the stainless steel had to be replaced with concrete, the material used in the run’s original design.

marine, designed to carry 16 nuclear-tipped missiles, had apparently sustained damage to its hull and possibly one missile tube hatch cover. Beyond that, the Pentagon had no immediate explanation of why the submarine sank. The sources also declined to say whether the United States had been able to monitor the status of the sub’s two nuclear reactors as the vessel sank. But a retired U.S. Navy officer,

U.S. monitors subs in 'the box'

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The Soviet submarine that caught fire Friday east of Bermuda was probably one of three Yankee-class vessels the Russians keep in a well-defined patrol region in the Atlantic, according to military experts. The Russians have about 22 of these nuclear-armed strategic submarines, and three are in constant patrol in what the U.S. Navy authorities call “the box” in the midAtlantic. Two other Yankee-class submarines patrol a region in the Pacific. The Navy monitors the movements of the submarines in three ways: with P-3 Orion aircraft, which drop sonar buoys; with Sosus, for sound underwater surveillance system, a set of underwater listening devices placed in strategic locations, and with tracking by the Navy’s attack submarines. Pentagon officials said that from monitoring of the submarine’s communications, they were aware that some accident had taken place on board when it occurred. But it was several hours before analysts could evaluate the nature of the problem. When they were certain that a fire had broken out, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger was informed, meaning American officials knew of the incident before President Reagan received a message about it from Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. The Yankee-class submarines in the Atlantic can carry up to 16 nuclear-tipped missiles. They are based in the Murmansk region and

Reformatory lawsuit among state cases before Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) - Resolution of a lawsuit filed by inmates of the Indiana State Reformatory is among several Indiana cases on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court as it opens its 1986-87 session today. The 1975 lawsuit claimed the reformatory was overcrowded and unsanitary, with poor medical care and food, inadequate recreation, and violations of fire and occupational safety standards. While a lower court order resulted in some changes and improvements, the lawsuit remains unresolved. Experts believe the court will reflect a slightly more conservative stance now that William H. Rehnquist has succeeded Warren E. Burger as chief justice and Antonin Scalia has filled Rehnquist’s vacated seat. “The ideological balance will not change substantially. Scalia is undoubtedly a bit more conservative than Burger ... so one could argue from that that it means very little change,” said Dr. Lawrence A. Baum, professor of political science at Ohio State University. Pat McGuigan, a legal analyst with the conservative Free Congress Foundation, said, “The Rehnquist court, with Scalia on it, will be substantially more conservative in style and in tone, but only marginally more conservative in terms of substantive law.” The new court’s agenda includes more than 100 cases already accepted for argument and hundreds more on appeal from lower courts. About a dozen Indiana cases have been docketed with the court after working their way through appeals. Other than the inmate lawsuit, the cases include a suit filed by a court reporter who was fired from her job in 1981 by a newly appointed judge of Lake County Superior Court. Indiana statutes provide that court personnel serve at the pleasure of senior judges. The woman sued and urged that her termination violated her civil

who commanded the nuclearpowered submarine Polaris, said officials had studied such a “worstcase scenario” and concluded there would be “no danger from this.” James Bush, a retired captain and now associate director of the Center for Defense Information, a private Pentagon watchdog group, said any radioactivity from the nuclear reactors would be diluted by the sea. The sources identified the Soviet merchant ship towing the sub as the Krasnogvardeysk.

go out on patrol by traveling through the Barents Sea and passing the peninsula where Norway juts into the Arctic Ocean. Before entering the Atlantic, the submarines pass through what the Navy calls the GI-UK gap, which stands for Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom. This region, experts say, is strung with Sosus devices, which pick up the acoustical “signature” of the submarines. American attack submarines also try to locate them up at some point. Using the signature, they are often able to identify not only the type of submarine but also the specific vessel. The P-3 aircraft, based in Bermuda, Iceland, Maine, Florida and other places, periodically try to pinpoint the locations of the submarines. In patrolling within “the box,” the submarines generally stay at least 1,000 miles from the Eastern Seaboard and go no farther out than 2,000 miles. When the United States deployed Pershing missiles in Europe in 1983, Moscow said it would provide an “analogous” response. In January and February of 1984, the Russians moved several submarines in the Atlantic closer to the Eastern Seaboard. This was apparently intended to make the flight time to Washington for submarine-launched missiles similar to the time needed for European-based Pershing missiles to reach the Soviet Union. During those months, the submarines were out of “the box.”

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ANTONIN SCALIA Newest justice rights and constituted unlawful discrimination by race. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the judge is not protected by judicial immunity and therefore is liable for damages. Another case involves a dispute over patent rights between pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Co., based in Indianapolis, and A.H. Robins. A lower court found Robins infringed on Lilly’s patent on feedutilization efficiency, a method to fatten cattle with less feed grain. A South Bend man has challenged that city’s affirmative action plan in the hiring of police and firefighters. Timothy Janorviak had the secondhighest test score of among nonminority firefighter applicants, but was not hired because the five-year affirmative action plan largely called for the hiring of minorities. DuPont is fighting reinstatement of an East Chicago man who in 1977 attacked his supervisor, damaged a locker room and ran naked through the facility. The man was ordered reinstated by an arbitrator who found the man was not at fault for his actions since he was suffering mental and emotional problems unknown at the time of employment.